To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium. - Eric Hoffer - Quotesmemo.com

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in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.

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Eric Hoffer

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

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Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

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The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

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