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Eric Hoffer
“Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.”
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Eric Hoffer
“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.”
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Eric Hoffer
“Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.”
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived.”
Nayyirah Waheed

Eric Hoffer
“Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, ‘to be free from freedom.’ It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?”
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

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