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Eric Hoffer

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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.


— Eric Hoffer


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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.


— Eric Hoffer


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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.


— Eric Hoffer


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


— Eric Hoffer


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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.


— Eric Hoffer


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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.


— Eric Hoffer


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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.


— Eric Hoffer


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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.


— Eric Hoffer


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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.


— Eric Hoffer


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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.


— Eric Hoffer


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Certainly Europe had undergone a similar destruction of tradition but it had occurred centuries earlier at the end of the Medieval period and produced better results thanks to different circumstances. " He saw these puberty rites as essential for self-esteem and noted that mass movements and juvenile mindsets tend to go together to the point that anyone no matter what age who joins a mass movement immediately begins to exhibit juvenile behavior. Consequently self-loathing produces explosive effects that cannot be mitigated through social engineering schemes such as programs of wealth redistribution.

In 2001 the Eric Hoffer Award was establiEric Hofferd in his honor with permission granted by the Eric Hoffer Estate in 2005. His first book The True Believer publiEric Hofferd in 1951 was widely recognized as a classic receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Change was his finest work.

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