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 almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. – Eric Hoffer

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Immigration
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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

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Necessity
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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

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Miscellaneous
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Other Quotes from
Modern, Modernism
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Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. – Le Corbusier

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. – Alexander Herzen

You are born modern, you do not become so. – Jean Baudrillard

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. – Robert Hewison

Random Quotes

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. Its about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Whos next? – Michelle Malkin

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Faith

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. – Marcellinus Ammianus

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Language

Making a film of a work youve played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera youve worked out the behavior and life of a character. – Linda Lavin

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Knowledge

Its funny now how much we look at – whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film – online, and how in the online world, youre instantly global. – Mike Mills

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design