Eric Hoffer Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Meaningful, Pregnancy

  New York Times Magazine 15 Feb. 1959, p. 12

• Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sheep, People, Humanity

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

• It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ... Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In a Communist state love of neighbor may be classed as counter-revolutionary.

  Eric Hoffer

  Eye, Doors, Humanity

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

• Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?

  Eric Hoffer

  Party, Acceptance, Destiny

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

• Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Angel, Humanity

• The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dedication, Self, Humanity

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

• There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

  Eric Hoffer

  Humanity, Reason Why, Motive

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

• The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sick, Soul, Humanity

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

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