Quotes by Hoffer, Eric

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actua >>

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appe >>

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there >>

Quotations about Adolescence

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the p >>

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which th >>

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a m >>

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Hoffer, Eric