Patrick

“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.”
― Eric Hoffer

“The enemy—the indispensible devil of every mass movement—is omnipresent. He plots both outside and inside the ranks of the faithful. It is his voice that speaks through the mouth of the dissenter, and the deviationists are his stooges. If anything goes wrong within the movement, it is his doing. It is the sacred duty of the true believer to be suspicious. He must be constantly on the lookout for saboteurs, spies and traitors.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time

“Empathy, alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.”
― Eric Hoffer