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Eric Hoffer Quotes: Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.
         

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.


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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.



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



The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.



I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.



I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.



The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.



We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.



Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.



Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.



When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.





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Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!



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Our writer would play the piano and then come up with songs on the spot that included all of us. It was so fun!

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For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.




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