It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

About Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American philosopher and social critic. A moderate with an atypical working-class background, Hoffer wrote ten books over his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer (1951), was widely...

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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape.

Children are the keys of paradise.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.

—Emily Dickinson

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

—Edmund Burke

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

—Dr. David M. Burns

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

—Bertrand Russell

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

—Ann Radcliffe

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