Eric Hoffer Quotes

I don't want to just love my family; I want to love all of humanity.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Look at every Zion society from ancient times to present, and you find at its center love for others.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.

Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.

There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.

Before a game, you know, I can take off my helmet, run over there and spend a few moments with someone who is dealing with so much more than I've ever had to deal with and to love on them and care about them and in front of thousands and thousands of people, you know, let them know that they're more important than all of this.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

What are we here for, save to help each other, to love each other, to uplift each other?

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature - these are the only objects worth being attached to.

Be a member of the human race. Love somebody. Change the world.