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.

Eric Hoffer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FreeWillMinorityDissentMajority

I'm trying to work on my Spanish.

Jimmy Gomez

WorkTryingSpanish

It's very hard to balance being there for somebody else and taking care of yourself.

Jennifer Grey

YourselfBalanceCareBeing There

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

John Lone

AgeArtIdentityInnocentNo Sense

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

Andy Goldsworthy

StoneWatchMeltFrightening

I get treated like a princess in India. It is like a different world.

Amy Jackson

WorldIndiaPrincessGetDifferent

When you meet me and hang out with me, I might come across as a very upbeat, driven person. I don't come across as someone who is wounded.

Amanda Knox

MeSomeoneYouPersonMeetOut

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

Roger Daltrey

FailureTimeThinkKnowWayBand

I think my heart will always be made of metal, but it would be ignorant of me and kind of foolish to ignore the other emotional connections you can make in all kinds of music.

Rob Halford

MusicHeartMeThinkConnections

A campaign ought to demonstrate the basic human decency of the candidate. That means your First Amendment rights end at the tip of your opponent's nose - even in the matter of political rhetoric.

Mike Pence

EndPoliticalRhetoricMatterFirst

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Lord Kelvin

ScienceRestPhysicsOnlyStamp

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

CapitalismLogicCivilizationVirtue

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

Christine McVie

WordsMovingSongPrimeRatherThan

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