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Eric Hoffer

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Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.


— Eric Hoffer


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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.


— Eric Hoffer


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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.


— Eric Hoffer


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Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.


— Eric Hoffer


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Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.


— Eric Hoffer


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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.


— Eric Hoffer


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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.


— Eric Hoffer


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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.


— Eric Hoffer


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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.


— Eric Hoffer


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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.


— 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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