Eric Hoffer Mind Quotations

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

But I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind

What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.

A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.

Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding,

When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable animated instrument which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.

There is a close connection between lack of confidence and the passionate state of mind.

The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.

The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.