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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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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.


— Eric Hoffer


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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.


— 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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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.


— Eric Hoffer


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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.


— Eric Hoffer


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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.


— Eric Hoffer


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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.


— Eric Hoffer


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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.


— 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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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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