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Eric Hoffer

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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.


— Eric Hoffer


#nature

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.


— Eric Hoffer


#ideas #change

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.


— Eric Hoffer


#business

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.


— Eric Hoffer


#jesus #marx #marxism #nature

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.


— Eric Hoffer


#oligarchy #tyranny #experience

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.


— Eric Hoffer


#blessings #count #enables #hardest #master

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.


— Eric Hoffer


#child #creativeness #his #man #milieu

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


— Eric Hoffer


#child #ills #love #man #suffers

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.


— Eric Hoffer


#cures #need #private #public #their

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


— Eric Hoffer


#being #deed #futile #judge #kind






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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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