Eric Hoffer Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

  Eric Hoffer

  Clever, Fear, Halloween

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

• Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

  Eric Hoffer

  Friends, Real, Believe

• By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Men, Odds

• Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sacrifice, Enemy, Generations

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

• All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Individuality, Enemy

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Hatred, Enemy

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

  Eric Hoffer

  War, Enemy, Defeated

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, p. 127, 1973.

• It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Enemy, Easier

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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