Eric Hoffer Quotes

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

A man by himself is in bad company.

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.