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Letter "E" » Eric Hoffer Quotes
«Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
corrupts, impotence, inadequacies, inadequacy, resentment, wickedness
«The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
achievements, blur, blurred, blurring, blurs, crises, crowded, details, disappointments, landmark, landmarks, remarkable, surprises
«Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
adolescence, Eliminating, grownup, grownups, Modern Age, preoccupation, responsibilities, rewards, scholarship, skills, Spheres, stable, The Modern Age
«A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.»
«The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
exertions, extravagant, necessities, nonessential, passionate, priority, superfluities, superfluity, The Chief, Top Priority, traits, uniqueness, unlike
«No matter how noble the objective of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion - it is an evil government»
«Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
baldness, bear in mind, covers, familiarity, intolerance, ruffled, ruffles, sign on, The Do, tolerate, touching, toupee
«The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
hurry, hustle, hustled, hustles, hustling, puerility, superficiality
«It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations /past and present /are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
anxieties, hungers, incomprehensible, millennia, outsider, outsiders, remained, The Millennium, timeless
«There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
break dancing, brotherhood, Brotherhood Of Man, Continent, denunciation, grandeur, hum, humming, in unison, overpower, overpowered, overpowering, roar, sway, sweeps, The Brotherhood, the continent, The Hum, uniformity, unison, wildfire
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