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Eric Hoffer

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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.


— Eric Hoffer


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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.


— Eric Hoffer


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Children are the keys of paradise.


— Eric Hoffer


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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.


— Eric Hoffer


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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.


— Eric Hoffer


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Facts are counterrevolutionary.


— Eric Hoffer


I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.


— Eric Hoffer


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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.


— Eric Hoffer


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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.


— Eric Hoffer


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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.


— 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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