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 HofferIt is part of the formidableness of a genuine mass movement that the self-sacrifice it promotes includes also a sacrifice of some of the moral sense, which cramps and restrains our nature.
Eric HofferTo the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
Eric HofferThe unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.
Eric Hoffer