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Movement Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
- 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…
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- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once. — Robert Anton Wilson
- While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the… — John F. Kennedy
- For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of… — George Eliot
- This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at… — Gautama Buddha
- I am also Yours loved and I feel the love of the taunt.When I had been rejected by you, have to know… — Mak_786
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong