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From The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955), p. 260 ; as cited in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0231071949, ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press (1993), p. 741 <br class="br">The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

“It is not good for our efforts at self-realization to know the opinions other people have of us. It is difficult or perhaps impossible to be ourselves if we are known.”

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Entry (1951)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics, and consolidated by men of action.”

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The True Believer (1951), Part Four: Beginning and End

“Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority.”

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"The Trend Toward Anarchy," p. 52
In Our Time (1976)

“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.”

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Section 49
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”

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Section 123
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

“Not only are oppression and exploitation an old story in Asia, but the colonial regimes of the British in lndia and of the Dutch in lndonesia were fairly beneficient—more so perhaps than any regime those countries ever had or are likely to have for some time. I am convinced that were the Western colonial powers a hundred times more beneficent, and had they been animated from very beginning by the purest philantropic motives, their impact on the Orient would still have had the fateful consequences we are witnessing at present.”

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Conflict and consensus: readings toward a sociological perspective (1973), p. 438, Harper & Row.

“We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.”

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Ch. 1: "Drastic Change" http://books.google.com/books?id=7Y-NoJ8yNIkC&q=%22every+radical+adjustment+is+a+crisis+in+self-esteem%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage <br class="br">The Ordeal of Change (1963)

“Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion, a truth, a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.”

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Section 37
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

“We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.”

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Entry (1955)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

“To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.”

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Section 163
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)