747 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration.

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

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

We cannot hate those who we despise.

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.