Eric Hoffer Quotes on Influence

3 quotes

  1. For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. And whether we are to line up with him or against him, it is well that we should know all we can concerning his nature and potentialities.

  2. Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were 'the people,' and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority.

  3. 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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