Eric Hoffer: Quotes about people

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“We do not make people humble and meek when we show them their guilt and cause them to be ashamed of themselves. We are more likely to stir their arrogance and rouse in them a reckless aggressiveness. Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.”

Eric Hoffer book The True Believer

Section 69
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice

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

Eric Hoffer

From The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955), p. 260 ; as cited in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0231071949, ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press (1993), p. 741 <br class="br">The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

“It is not good for our efforts at self-realization to know the opinions other people have of us. It is difficult or perhaps impossible to be ourselves if we are known.”

Eric Hoffer

Entry (1951)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority.”

Eric Hoffer

"The Trend Toward Anarchy," p. 52
In Our Time (1976)

“Perhaps people throw themselves into heated polemics to give content to their lives, to warm their hearts. What Luther said of hatred is true of all quarreling. There is nothing like a feud to make life seem full and interesting.”

Eric Hoffer

Entry (1950)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“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

Section 211
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

“The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.”

Eric Hoffer

Section 32
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)