When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life - Eric Hoffer
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life
- Eric Hoffer
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations. - Eric Hoffer
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. - Eric Hoffer
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers. - Eric Hoffer
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. - Eric Hoffer
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming … - Eric Hoffer
All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming …
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. - Eric Hoffer
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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