Eric Hoffer Quotes About Deception

Quotes about: Deception

• Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

  Eric Hoffer

  Evil, Deception, Able

• 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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Power, Government

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

• The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Spring, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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