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 — that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.


Journal entry (30 October 1958, 6:30 am) - Working and Thinking on the Waterfront (1969)

Eric Hoffer Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...