Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Quote by Eric Hoffer
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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Eric Hoffer Quotes
- Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
- It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
- Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
- To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
- We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.
- The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
- 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.
- Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.
- Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
- In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Best Quotes
- There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
- Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
- Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
- Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
- Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
- Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.
- Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
- What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.
- There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.