Eric Hoffer Sites Quotations

Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.

It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

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 image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities.

It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.