Quotes
Authors
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 movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice."

-- Eric Hoffer

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“But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.”
“There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.”
“I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.”
“It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.”

Source : Charlotte Lennox (1761). “Henrietta”, p.102
“Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.”
“One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.”
“Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?”

Source : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Intensely Alice”, p.222, Simon and Schuster
“A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.”

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