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Eric Hoffer

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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.


— Eric Hoffer


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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.


— Eric Hoffer


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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.


— Eric Hoffer


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The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.


— Eric Hoffer


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It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.


— Eric Hoffer


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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.


— Eric Hoffer


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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.


— 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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