Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. – Eric Hoffer
Intolerance is the Do Not Touch sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness. – Eric Hoffer
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. – Eric Hoffer
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. – Eric Hoffer
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. – Eric Hoffer
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
Rudeness is the weak mans imitation of strength. – Eric Hoffer
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
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. – Eric Hoffer
Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder. – Eric Hoffer
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. – Eric Hoffer
Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. – Eric Hoffer
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a mans spirit than when we win his heart. – Eric Hoffer
Man was natures mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. – Eric Hoffer
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love ones neighbor. – Eric Hoffer
The fear of becoming a has-been keeps some people from becoming anything. – Eric Hoffer
To know a persons religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. – Eric Hoffer
The greatest weariness comes from work not done. – Eric Hoffer
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. – Eric Hoffer
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. – Eric Hoffer
