Eric Hoffer Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Passion, Equality

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Shrinking, Literature

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

• A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Self, Desire

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.12, Harper Collins

• The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Inferiority, Thread

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Action, Mark

• The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Sometimes, Born

• There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Selfish, Passion, Exercise

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

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