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
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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 …
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.
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers. - Eric Hoffer
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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.
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.
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a ma… - Eric Hoffer
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a ma…
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.
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