Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.
Eric HofferNever have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.
Eric HofferIt almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
Eric HofferFor men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the possession of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power.
Eric Hoffer