There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. – Eric Hoffer
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. – Eric Hoffer

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. – Eric Hoffer
There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. – Eric Hoffer
The necessary has never been mans top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, mans greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities. – Eric Hoffer
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. – Eric Hoffer
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own running commentary on the preposterous and bewildering events of the hour: and this, nowadays, is what passes for conversation. – Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver, 1930s