Eric Hoffer Quotes
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
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We are not the people we are in films. I am not an alcoholic. But I portray that. I can't bash up 20 guys at a time in real life. It's just that I do it well on-screen.
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It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.
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Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.
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A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
