The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.
Eric HofferMen weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
Eric HofferA nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
Eric HofferNaivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Eric HofferStarting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.
Eric Hoffer