Eric Hoffer Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Fall, Men

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

• It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Light, Perspective

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

• In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Fall, Anxiety

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.14, Harper Collins

• In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Progress, Society

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

• We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Running, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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