Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

Eric Hoffer
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  2. The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. - Oscar Wilde

  3. Here is your great soul–the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself. - Seneca

  4. Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform. - Derrick A. Bell

  5. In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive You - Vineet Raj Kapoor

More Quotes By Eric Hoffer
  1. Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

  2. There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

  3. The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

  4. The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

  5. We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

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