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Eric Hoffer

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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.


— Eric Hoffer


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To the old, the new is usually bad news.


— Eric Hoffer


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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.


— Eric Hoffer


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We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.


— 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.


— Eric Hoffer


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What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?


— Eric Hoffer


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When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.


— Eric Hoffer


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You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.


— Eric Hoffer


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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.


— Eric Hoffer


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A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.


— 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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