"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other." ― Eric Hoffer Topic(s): Society Tags: society, there, would More From Eric Hoffer "The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets." "Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart." "I think that what I’m doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course." More In Society "The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored."― Jean de la Bruyere "Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also."― Charles Horton Cooley "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."― Adam Smith