We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. – Eric Hoffer
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer
There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brothers keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. – Eric Hoffer
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. – Eric Hoffer
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. – Thomas Babington Macaulay