Quotes by Hoffer, Eric

More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters p >>

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and ci >>

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. >>

Quotations about Totalitarianism

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalit >>

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism. >>

Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of do >>

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Hoffer, Eric