If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.
Eric HofferAn easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.
Eric HofferIt is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
Eric HofferThe aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.
Eric Hoffer