Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Quote by Eric Hoffer
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
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Eric Hoffer Quotes
- One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
- The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
- It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
- It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
- Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
- Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
- Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
- Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
- The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
- It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Best Quotes
- Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
- Money for me today does not really matter.
- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
- The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
- Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
- Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
- I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.