Eric Hoffer Quotes

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

For me, life is not about gold taps and marble all over the place.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.

I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

Because of the demand for luxury articles, they become customary, and thus come to be necessities

My life screams out and says one thing: 'indulgence.' I am a person who would never deny myself anything.

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

I can honestly say my music is always going to be greater than my business side. Because I'm naturally a musician. And I don't have to get paid, I don't even have to have businesses. Business is business. And music is life.

What do people want? Well, you really can’t talk about wants until you talk about needs.

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans.

Spend all you have for loveliness.