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Passion 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…
- Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
- The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
- There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
- One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to…
- The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not…
More Passion Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- Our passion is our strength. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of… — Annie Besant
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams