When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. – Eric Hoffer
When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. – 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
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. – Eric Hoffer
When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, Hey cousin! Hey Auntie! And Im like, Okay I dont know you, I have no idea who you are. I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And Ill be like, Which of my family members are giving you this phone number? – Sherri Shepherd