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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
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Eric Hoffer
Age: 84 †
Born: 1898
Born: July 25
Died: 1983
Died: May 21
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Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.
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The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.
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If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.
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We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.
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I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.
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Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.
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We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.
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We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact
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Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
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Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.
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Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.
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A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
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We are unified both by hating in common and by being hated in common.
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.
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There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.
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People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.
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