747 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

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    One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

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    In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn.

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    A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.

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    There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

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    A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to deal swiftly and relentlessly with those who would mistake its good will for weakness.

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    Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

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    When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.

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