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Eric Hoffer Quotes

«The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer)
«Capitalism is at its liberating best in a non-capitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer)
«Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer)
«Those who are involved in the development of people are doing the most important work in the world for they are completing God?s work.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | About: God, People
«We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | About: Words | Keywords: Feel free, fire escape, frying, frying pan, Pan
«It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: excites, revolt
«It is not the wickedness of the old regime [the masses] rise against but its weakness.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer)
«When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom - freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer)
«Anger is a prelude to courage.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer)
«Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer)