Mass Movement Quotes

24 quotes by 12 authors

• 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… — Eric Hoffer
• 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… — Eric Hoffer
• If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement. — Isabel Briggs Myers
• Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do. — Rebecca Solnit
• One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is… — Wole Soyinka
• 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… — Eric Hoffer
• 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… — Eric Hoffer
• Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to… — Soren Kierkegaard
• When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture,… — Eric Hoffer
• 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… — Eric Hoffer
• 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… — Eric Hoffer
• The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure. — Eric Hoffer
• 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… — Eric Hoffer
• What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation. — Eric Hoffer
• So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you… — Thomas Friedman
• 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… — Eric Hoffer
• I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to change for the… — Dean Koontz
• Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality, as well as… — Medea Benjamin
• Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of… — James A.C. Brown

Who Wrote These Mass Movement Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 24 Mass Movement Quotes as follows:

• 13 Mass Movement Quotes by Eric Hoffer
• 1 Mass Movement Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Mass Movement Quote by Isabel Briggs Myers
• 1 Mass Movement Quote by Rebecca Solnit
• 1 Mass Movement Quote by Wole Soyinka
• 1 Mass Movement Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
• 1 Mass Movement Quote by Thomas Friedman
• 1 Mass Movement Quote by Dean Koontz
• 1 Mass Movement Quote by Medea Benjamin
• 1 Mass Movement Quote by James A.C. Brown
• 1 Mass Movement Quote by Adam Michnik
• 1 Mass Movement Quote by Lalu Prasad Yadav