221 ordspråk av Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer föddes den July 25th 1902 och dog den 21 May 1983 - US writer
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 Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

 Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

 Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

 Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

 Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others

 Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

 Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength

 Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

 Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

 Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

 Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

 Successful action tends to become an end in itself

 That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

 The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do

 The beginning of thought is in disagreement , not only with others but also with ourselves.


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