https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:29:59 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/ https://wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/#respond Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:14:11 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=81117 When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)
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See also Hoffer (1971). ]]> https://wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/feed/ 0 81117 https://wist.info/hoffer-eric/13485/ https://wist.info/hoffer-eric/13485/#respond Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:55:55 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=13485 When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
First Things, Last Things, ch. 8 “Thoughts on the Present” (1971)
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