America meant freedom and what is freedom? To Hoffer it is the capacity to feel like oneself. He felt like Eric Hoffer; sometimes like Eric Hoffer, working man. It could be said, I believe, that he is the first important American writer, working class born, who remained working class - in his habits, associations, environment. I cannot think of another. Therefore, he was a national resource. The only one of its kind in the nation's possession.

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - t…

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

When we leave people on their own, we are delivering them into the hands of a ruthless taskmaster from whose bondage there is no escape. The individual who has…

To freely bloom- that is my definition of success.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.