Eric Hoffer Quotes

That The Deprecating Attitude Of A Mass Movement Toward The Present Seconds The Inclinations Of The Frustrated Is Obvious. What Surprises One, When Listening To The Frustrated As They Decry The Present And All Its Works, Is The Enormous Joy They Derive From Doing So. Such Delight Cannot Come From The Mere Venting Of A Grievance. There Must Be Something More -- And There Is. By Expatiating Upon The Incurable Baseness And Vileness Of The Times, The Frustrated Soften Their Feeling Of Failure And Isolation. It Is As If They Said: 'Not Only Our Blemished Selves, But The Lives Of All Our Contemporaries, Even The Most Happy And Successful, Are Worthless And Wasted.' Thus By Deprecating The Present They Acquire A Vague Sense Of Equality.

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