#han

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ↗

#easier #humanity #neighbor #than #to love

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#frustration #greater #lack #less #many

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#break #heart #his #man #more

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#around #cause #change #ground #other

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#far #know #more #than #want

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#attuned #ears #enhances #evil #fellow

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#concern #improvement #more #motives #purity

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#greater #his #house #loneliness #own

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#else #greater #like #reassurance #than

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind. ↗