WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/hoffer-eric/16636/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Eric Hoffer</b></a></p><blockquote>The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.</blockquote><p><b>Eric Hoffer</b> (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman<br><i>Passionate State of Mind</i>, Aphorism 104 (1955)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/hoffer-eric/16636/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/hoffer-eric/16636/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=erichoffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>erichoffer</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=butchery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>butchery</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ego</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=evil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evil</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=inhumanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inhumanity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=megalomania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>megalomania</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ruthlessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ruthlessness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfrighteousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>selfrighteousness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=superiority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>superiority</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=sick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sick</span></a></p>