Eric Hoffer Quotes About Ethics

Quotes about: Ethics

• It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Kindness, Kind Deeds, Judging

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

• The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

  Eric Hoffer

  Respect, Self, Trying

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

• Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dirty, Practice, Play

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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