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“The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it.
- The True Believer
- The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms
- The Ordeal of Change
- The Temper of Our Time
- Israel's Peculiar Position
- Working and Thinking on The Waterfront
- First Things, Last Things
- Reflections on The Human Condition
- In Our Time
- Before The Sabbath
The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements(1951)For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own im...To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is t...
We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.
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.
"Israel's Peculiar Position" in The Los Angeles Times(26 May 1968) The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a ...
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront : A Journal: June 1958-May 1959 You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others — that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness. There is, for instance, the fact that there is a greater read...
A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to...
Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than thre...
The best education will not immunize a person against corruption by power. The best education does not automatically make people compassionate. We know this more clearly than any preceding generati...
Nov 24, 2016 · Some things never change . ISRAEL'S PECULIAR POSITION. by Eric Hoffer (LA Times 5/26/68) The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted. to any other nations are forbidden to the Jews....
Oct 18, 2021 · InDepth. Op-Eds. Longshoremen and Israel: Then and Now. By. Eugene Veklerov. - 12 Heshvan 5782 – October 18, 2021. 0. tweet. Photo Credit: Minimalist quotes-free site. Eric Hoffer...
Dec 4, 2020 · ghetto of the Middle Ages was for the Jews more a fortress than a prison. Without the sense of utmost unity and distinctness which the ghetto imposed upon them, they could not have endured with unbroken spirit the violence and abuse of those dark centuries.
To say that the cause of our troubles is not in us but in the Jews , and pass immediately to the extermination of the Jews, is a prescription likely to find a wide acceptance. Eric Hoffer. Acceptance, Diagnosis, Causes. Eric Hoffer (1996).
