mass movement

is always inciting conflict not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.

All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium. Eric Hoffer

is attractive because it satisfies the passion for self-renunciation, not self-advancement.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation. Eric Hoffer

is always generative of a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action among its adherents. It breeds fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance.

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action... all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance... all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life... all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance. Eric Hoffer

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