It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Eric HofferThe trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.
Eric HofferIt is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.
Eric HofferOne 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 HofferThe leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.
Eric Hoffer