Eric Hoffer Quotes About Fashion

Quotes about: Fashion

• The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fashion, New Beginnings, Simple

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fashion, Strong, Numbers

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

• There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, Fashion, Song

• When cowardice becomes a fashion its adherents are without number, and it masquerades as forbearance, reasonableness and whatnot.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fashion, Numbers, Cowardice

  "First Things, Last Things". Book by Eric Hoffer. Chapter 8: "Thoughts on the Present", 1971.

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