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Eric Hoffer Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

Topics

Power Lie True Come Only Lies

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

Work Summer Him Carpenter Playing

I don't conduct my career for when I'm dead and people say nice things about me. I conduct my career for the here and now, and what excites me, and what interests me.

People Me Career Nice Now Say

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

Budget Said Movies Way First Out

For me, once I've worked on something and it's finished, it's like an ex-boyfriend: you don't go back to them.

Me You Back Go Something Finished

I can't put much weight into whether the public likes me because the more important thing is that, as an actor, I can truly say that there's not a single director or actor who I've worked with who'd have a bad thing to say about me.

Me Bad I Can Important Say Actor

But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral.

God Fun People College Me Look

When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need.

People Customer Know Want Need Must

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Work Yourself Joy Others Mark Only

Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.

Chelsea Manning

Power Patriotism American Mission

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Society Impossible Sometimes Snob

I haven't seen my face since I started growing my beard, which was when I was a teenager, almost; I never shaved. So I don't really know what I look like.

Beard Face Look Growing Know Never

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Life Negativity Trying You Side Get

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