"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."

Sociology, Pride, Identity, Excellence, Power

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"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."

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"Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time."

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Swedish Businessman

Sociology, Observation, Time, People, Study

"Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Sociology, Division, Profession, Sorrow, Night

"Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation."

Pearl Zhu, American Author

Sociology, Negative, Perception, Bias, Judgment

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Sociology, Insanity, Politics, History, Humanity

"Best of stories are created at Airports, Dinner Tables and Showers!"

Jasleen Kaur Gumber, Indian Writer

Sociology, Creativity, Life, Experience, Joy

"The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."

Barack Obama, American President

Sociology, Race, Emotion, Desire, Love

"An average woman is in this superior to an average man-that she never instigates, only responds."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Sociology, Gender, Difference, Response, Behavior

"In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers -- dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which they are only a problem.The Hell's Angels are not visionaries, but diehards, and if they are the forerunners or the vanguard of anything it is not the "moral revolution" in vogue on college campuses, but a fast-growing legion of young unemployables whose untapped energy will inevitably find the same kind of destructive outlet that "outlaws" like the Hell's Angels have been finding for years."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Sociology, Society, Youth, Destruction, Identity

"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

Sociology, Breeding

"We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility."

Stefan Molyneux, Canadian Author

Sociology, Society, Intelligence, Justice, Population

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"Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist."

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"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

Awareness

"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

Failure

"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come."

Nation

"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

Dissent

"The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind."

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"Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time."

"Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs."

"Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation."

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the ru)e."

"Best of stories are created at Airports, Dinner Tables and Showers!"

"The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."

"An average woman is in this superior to an average man-that she never instigates, only responds."

"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."

"We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility."

Explore more quotes by Eric Hoffer

"Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist."

"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come."

"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

"Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor."

"Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself."

"The greatest weariness comes from work not done."

"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."

"The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind."