Eric Hoffer Quotes
An American writer on social issues.
(1902 - 1983)
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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.
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A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
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A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
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A man by himself is in bad company.
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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
[The Present]
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
[Faith]
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
[Action]
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An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
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Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
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Children are the keys of paradise.
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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
[Creativity]
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
[Disappointment]
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Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
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