Eric Hoffer Quotes
The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.
Hoffer, Eric. The Ordeal of Change. Harper & Row, 1963.
Whether or not our USAID officials are tough on a bureaucracy or a government unfortunately has had little to do with whether they had used to money for services to the poor, but how the nation voted in support of the United States in the UN and engaged in other political acts perceived by the State Department and the Administration to be favorable to the United States.
Explanation for his assassination of President William McKinley:
He was arguing for investments in third world countries.
In most communities, social services are actually performed by local organizations and companies working under grants and contracts awarded by Federal, State or local government agencies. But often these grant recipients or contractors go off and do what they want to do rather than what is actually needed.
Eric Hoffer was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer (1951), was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen, although Hoffer believed that The Ordeal of Change was his finest work.
