Author of quotes: Eric Hoffer

For a person ripe for self-sacrifice he must be stripped of its identity and its features. He must cease to be George, Ivan or Tadao to stop being a human atom, whose existence is limited by birth and death. The most direct way to do this - the dissolution of the individual into the collective whole. Fully assimilated the personality of either himself or others not considered for separate people. When such a person asked: who is he? - he automatically replied that he was a German, Russian, Japanese, Christian, Muslim, member of so-and-so tribe, and family. Such a person has no goals, values, and destinies outside the team; and while this team lives and lives of people.

Who is the loudest noise about freedom, more often is less likely to be happy in a free society. Dissatisfied, oppressed by their shortcomings to its failure knocked to the existing order. In fact, their deepest desire is to finish "freedom for all". They want to eliminate free competition and other ordeals, which continually undergoes a personality in a free society.

When people are bored, it means they're tired of themselves. His mind is barren, meaningless existence is the main source of boredom.

If genuine freedom, equality is the passion of the masses, and when true equality is the freedom passion is a small minority. Equality without freedom creates a more sustainable form of society than freedom without equality.

People often turn their lives into a constant routine and use it to confront the feeling of insecurity and sense of danger. This achieves the illusion that emergency tamed.

If a person is deprived of the talent to do something for themselves, freedom for him is a depressing burden. What freedom of choice if he no what can not?

Power corrupts, not so many people, and the disadvantages ruin of many.

To understand the religion of any person, there is no need to listen to what he believes, and you should find out what he hates.

Many of the insights of the Saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

The leader must be a pragmatist and a realist, but must speak the language of the visionary and the idealist.

The best stimulus for running ahead is to have something behind this, from what I have to run.

The Central task of education is to cultivate the desire and ability to learn; the educational system should produce not learned but learning people. Truly humane society is a society of learning, in which students are both grandfathers, and fathers, and children. In times of rapid changes the future belongs to those who are able to learn. Such people are usually able to survive in a world that no longer exists.

To induce the soul to action, we need to break composure.

To live fully means to feel that nothing is impossible.