Eric Hoffer Movement Quotations

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

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

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

It 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.

What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.