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“A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness and meaningless of an individual existence. It cures the poignantly frustrated not by conferring upon them an absolute truth or by remedying the difficulties and abuses which made their lives miserable, but by freeing them from their ineffectual selves and it does this by enfolding and absorbing them into a closely knit and exultant corporate whole.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.”

People Society Movement Offers Mass Aim Technique Cures True Believer Malady

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them.”

People Doe Self Matter Form Culture Individual Force Born Cases Society Civilization Mass Originals Possession Enormous Delusion Plastic Coast Endowment

Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE

Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE

“Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.”

Has Beens Problem America Political Social Views Cities Morning Society Media Mass Denial Paradise Psychologist Mass Media Social Problems Inner City

Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”

People Thinking Bigs Lying Fall Society Mass Victim Propaganda Dishonesty Nazism Mein Kampf Rise To Power

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.”

Trying Individual Society Mass Lifts Republic Ridicule Slander Republic Day

Author:Victor Hugo

“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.”

Ifs Men Law Society Mass Advantage Terror Minorities Customs Ruling Mixtures Beneficial Minority Government

Author:Peter Kropotkin

“The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.”

Individual Social Society Movement Evolution Mass Seeking Awakening Threshold

Book:Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

“A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.”

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

“It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.”

Stories Would Be Winning Lost Society Mass Tragic

Author:Paul Lazarsfeld

“All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“What they sell to the masses are the chains you must break if you are ever to be in control of your life.”

Ifs Break Society Mass Sells Chains Control Of Your Life

Author:Michael Dolan