Eric Hoffer Quotes About Imitation

Quotes about: Imitation

• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sarcastic, Freedom, Sarcasm

  Passionate State of Mind (1955) p. 21

• Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

  Eric Hoffer

  Attitude, Political, Glitter

• Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.

  Eric Hoffer

  Independent, Play, People

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

  Eric Hoffer

  Overcoming, Inferiority, Resentment

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

• The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Frustrated, Desire

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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