Mass Movement Quotes
24 quotes by 12 authors
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.
— Rebecca Solnit
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.
— Eric Hoffer
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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
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What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.
— Eric Hoffer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: