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Mass Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.
- A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for…
- Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
- Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self…
- There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire…
- Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.
- It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral…
- People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also…
- Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own…
- When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture,…
- All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they…
- Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new…
- A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness…
- The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.
- The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a…
- Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor…
- What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
- The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the…
- There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and…
- Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new…
More Mass Quotes
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray,… — Bono
- As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic… — James Bovard