Quote by Eric Hoffer
When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. – Eric Hoffer

Other quotes by Eric Hoffer

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned. – Eric Hoffer

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Weakness
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To know a persons religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. – Eric Hoffer

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Faith
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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

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Other Quotes from
Modern, Modernism
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A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. – Edgar Z. Friedenberg

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle — absolute busyness — then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy — and without consciousness. – Gunther Grass

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You know that Arizona is going to really be understood and get somewhere some day. – Will Rogers [Ummm, no comment. —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]

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It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it werent for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didnt fight with honor… I fought to win. – Orson Scott Card

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In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. – William Penn

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Beauty

I think Ive earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency. – Curt Schilling

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respect