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Offers Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the…
- 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…
- 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 ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by…
- 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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- What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo
- Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them.… — Jodi Picoult
- If you come across something good, you should hold on and never let it go. Life offers you a thousand chances, all… — Nishan Panwar
- If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret. — Eve Arnold
- 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
- Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the… — Hosea Ballou
- I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not… — Roseanne Barr
- Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it? — R C Sproul