"When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom â€” freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse."

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Source : Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

Eric Hoffer

#Hate Quotes #Lying Quotes #Bully Quotes

“There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.”
“It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.”
“I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative; art is also about beauty and if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.”
“The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked.”
“I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.”

Source : "Pamela Anderson Talks Boobs 'n' Business". Interveiw with Abigail Pesta, www.marieclaire.com. December 18, 2009.
“True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.”
“Sometimes you feel more naked when you're totally dressed than the other way around.”

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