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Above Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
- Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.
- What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far…
- The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
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