I have a premonition that will not leave me: as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us. Eric Hoffer More Quotes by Eric Hoffer More Quotes From Eric Hoffer The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches. Eric Hoffer opiates poison feelings Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. Eric Hoffer degrees leadership work This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter Eric Hoffer effort desire men How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization! Eric Hoffer sacrifice realization self Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self. Eric Hoffer fighting self attitude The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop. Eric Hoffer literature depression world The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor. Eric Hoffer renaissance soldier time Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults. Eric Hoffer calamity adults taken To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. Eric Hoffer time numbers people To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights. Eric Hoffer experience events creative Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs. Eric Hoffer qualifications affair management There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing. Eric Hoffer perfect happiness men How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness. Eric Hoffer obscurity vices writing Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less voluntary surrender. In both cases, the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is - automatism. Both Faith and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be manipulated at will. Eric Hoffer crush self religion A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. Eric Hoffer malcontent love peace Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless. Eric Hoffer vicious ruthless religion To be ruthless requires belief that our life on earth is but a brief prelude to an afterlife, or a temporary sacrifice before some utopia can be instituted. Eric Hoffer sacrifice skills moving I always held my flower in a clenched fist. Eric Hoffer fists flower Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole the church, party, nation and not to his fellow true believer. True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society . Eric Hoffer faithful party loyalty Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. Eric Hoffer gold writing mean
