“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.” PeopleMenMindRunningFallInterestSocietyAffairNeighborShouldersGossipThroatMeaninglessRunning AwayOwn BusinessMeddlingSnooping Book:The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.” IfsKnowsMenWantKindFallIndividualEffortPowerFailingSocietyCollectivesIndividualismFulfilledWholenessFulfilment Book:Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation Source: Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation