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All Quotes by author - Eric Hoffer

" Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. "

" A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. "

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

" A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. "

" A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. "

" A man by himself is in bad company. "

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

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

" Animals often strike us as passionate machines. "

" Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. "

" Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. "

" Children are the keys of paradise. "

" Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. "

" Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. "

" Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. "

" Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. "

" Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. "

" Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. "

" Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. "

" Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. "

" Facts are counterrevolutionary. "

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

" Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. "

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

" In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. "

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

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

" It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. "

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

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

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