Eric Hoffer Quotes about Faith

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In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

Eric Hoffer

Faith, People, Balance

Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.15, Harper Collins

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

Faith, History, Literature

ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

Faith, Cutting, Power

Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers