747 Quotes by Eric Hoffer

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.

To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.