Maxioms by Eric Hoffer
...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.
...there is no alienation that a little power will not cure.
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it read more
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 and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves- and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.
