Eric Hoffer Quotes about Country

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Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.

Eric Hoffer

Country, America, People

Eric Hoffer (1977). “In our time”, McNally & Loftin Publishers

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

Eric Hoffer

Country, Population, Half

"The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1967.

The education explosion is producing a vast number of people who want to live significant, important lives but lack the ability to satisfy this craving for importance by individual achievement. The country is being swamped with nobodies who want to be somebodies.

Eric Hoffer

Country, Numbers, People

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

Eric Hoffer

Country, America, People

"Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 53, 1973.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

Eric Hoffer

Country, Men, White

There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.

Eric Hoffer

Country, Fashion, Song