Eric Hoffer Quotes about Pride

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It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

Eric Hoffer

Fighting, Pride, Trouble

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

Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another.

Eric Hoffer

Humility, Pride, Substitution

Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

Eric Hoffer

Pride, Men, Self

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

The impression somehow prevails that the true believer, particularly the religious individual, is a humble person. The truth is that the surrendering and humbling of the self breeds pride and arrogance.

Eric Hoffer

Religious, Humble, Pride

ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Eric Hoffer

Respect, Humility, Pride

Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we surrender our sense of human dignity, our judgement, or moral and aesthetic sense for pride. If there is pride in being free, we are ready to die for liberty. If there is pride to be derived from an identification with a leader, we grovel in the dust before a Napoléon, Hitler or Stalin and are ready to die for him. If there is a distinction in suffering we search for martyrdom as for hidden treasure.

Eric Hoffer

Pride, Self, Dust

Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.

Eric Hoffer

Wise, Wisdom, Pride

Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

Eric Hoffer Quotes about Pride

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