"The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure."

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Eric Hoffer

#People Quotes #Society Quotes #Movement Quotes

“We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.”
“One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.”
“I love getting dressed up for red carpet events and having my hair and makeup done professionally - that definitely helps with nerves of going down the red carpet.”
“[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.”
“It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc”
“Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it.”

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“Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.”
“A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.”

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