There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.
Eric HofferThe burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
Eric HofferIt is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
Eric Hoffer