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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)

“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi,” she wrote. They were secure enough to be good natured and open to new ideas, and they believed so completely in the promise of American democracy that they would defend it with their lives, even if they seemed too easygoing to join a struggle. “But the frustrated and humiliated intellec

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt • Hannah Arendt Quote

In his book Escape from Freedom, philosopher and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm argues that if man experiences freedom from authoritarian rule (e.g., government, religious institution) without exercising his freedom to express his individuality while integrating himself with the world, he will feel burdened with overwhelming feelings of loneliness, alie... See more

sundus • I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else

Hannah Arendt powerfully explained “the constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people who can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and w... See more

the quality of our lives and the health of our society depends, to a large degree, on how well we treat each other in the minute interactions of daily life.

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

If we were all rational, there would be no small businesses, there would be no exploration, there would be very little innovation and there would be no great leaders to inspire all those things. It is the undying belief in something bigger and better that drives that kind of behavior.

Simon Sinek • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling. The despair brought by unemployment comes not only from the threat of destitution, but from the sudden view of a vast nothingness ahead. The unemployed are more likely to follow the peddlers of hope than the handers-out of relief.

Eric Hoffer • The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)

For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the possession of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power.