Eric Hoffer Quotes

Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.

I'm easy to get along with, and intolerant.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.

It's hard to come up with a 'quote' about myself. Perhaps I could say that most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books... to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.

Why can't we all just get along?

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

All men can live together, if they wish to.

I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

Muslims should live like brothers.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.