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Quotes by Eric Hoffer

"It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living."
By Eric Hoffer
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"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
By Eric Hoffer
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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
By Eric Hoffer
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
By Eric Hoffer
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"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."
By Eric Hoffer
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"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
By Eric Hoffer
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"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
By Eric Hoffer
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"We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it."
By Eric Hoffer
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"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
By Eric Hoffer
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"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."
By Eric Hoffer
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"We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us."
By Eric Hoffer
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"The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it."
By Eric Hoffer
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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."
By Eric Hoffer
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"The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents."
By Eric Hoffer
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"All leaders strive to turn their followers into children."
By Eric Hoffer
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"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."
By Eric Hoffer
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"The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way."
By Eric Hoffer
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"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."
By Eric Hoffer
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"To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not."
By Eric Hoffer
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"No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart."
By Eric Hoffer
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"The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without."
By Eric Hoffer
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"The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant of others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves."
By Eric Hoffer
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"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both."
By Eric Hoffer
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"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
By Eric Hoffer
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"People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self."
By Eric Hoffer
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