3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
