Eric Hoffer Quotes

I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

Hate won't solve anything.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.

I think for really good-hearted people, that idea of putting yourself in the shoes of a monster to figure out why they acted that way, that's a really frightening idea.

Living without hate for people is almost impossible.

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge.

For me, there is only love and fear.

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Men do very little from love, a great deal from hate, most of all from indifference.

When your enemy falls, don't rejoice -- but don't pick him up either.

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Peace will not be built, however, by people with bitterness in their hearts.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

I'm not gonna say I'm the greatest guy, but the reason I don't hate is I know what it feels like to be hated. So I always pull for Tom Brady.

There is no forgiveness, justice, or healing on any level when hate is involved.

Hate is a learned reaction, and it can be unlearned.

I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination.

I've given up trying to reason with people who despise me.