Eric Hoffer Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Literature, Way

  "The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1967.

• 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 main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Men, Wish

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

• When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dream, Lying, Wrath

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.11, Harper Collins

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