4 Eric Hoffer Quotes on Movements

Eric Hoffer quotes on movements

24. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

27. Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

176. It is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense which cramps and restrains our nature.

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