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Aims Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- 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.
- When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is…
- The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.
More Aims Quotes
- In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than… — Bertrand Russell
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun
- If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will… — Carl von Clausewitz
- The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. — Samuel Johnson
- Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature. — Robert Bridges
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness… — Oscar Wilde