It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. – Eric Hoffer
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. – Eric Hoffer
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. – Eric Hoffer
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. – Eric Hoffer
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. – Eric Hoffer
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. – Eric Hoffer
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. – Eric Hoffer
The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. – Eric Hoffer
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. – Eric Hoffer
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. – Eric Hoffer
It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate. – 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
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. – Eric Hoffer
