Eric Hoffer

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.