Eric Hoffer quotes
"It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living."
"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."
"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
"We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it."
"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."
"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."
