— Frederick Herzberg American psychologist 1923 - 2000
Quelle: Work and the nature of man, 1966, p. 75).
„A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.“
— Eric Hoffer, buch The True Believer
Section 7
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements
Kontext: There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The practical organization offers opportunities for self-advancement, and its appeal is mainly to self-interest. On the other hand, a mass movement, particularly in its active, revivalist phase, appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self. A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.
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US-amerikanischer sozialkritischer Philosoph und Autor 1898 - 1983Ähnliche Zitate
— José Ortega Y Gasset, buch Der Aufstand der Massen
Quelle: The Revolt of the Masses (1929), Chapter XI: The Self-Satisfied Age
— Anthony Horowitz, buch Crocodile Tears
Quelle: Crocodile Tears
— Eric Hoffer, buch The True Believer
Section 7
The True Believer (1951), Part One: The Appeal of Mass Movements
Kontext: There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The practical organization offers opportunities for self-advancement, and its appeal is mainly to self-interest. On the other hand, a mass movement, particularly in its active, revivalist phase, appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self. A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.
„It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.“
— Erich Maria Remarque, buch Drei Kameraden
Quelle: Three Comrades
— Niccolo Machiavelli, buch Discourses on Livy
Book 1, Ch 44 (as translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella)
Discourses on Livy (1517)
— Eric Hoffer American philosopher 1898 - 1983
Quelle: The Ordeal of Change (1963), Ch. 5: "The Readiness to Work"
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty French phenomenological philosopher 1908 - 1961
Signs, trans. R. McCleary (Evanston: 1964), p. 203
— Nathan Lane American actor 1956
Sunday Tasmanian staff (January 4, 1998) "This Is A Very Mice Story!", Sunday Tasmanian, p. 037.
— Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz, buch Keli Yekar
Keli Yekar, quoted in Abraham Chill, The Mitzvot: The Commandments and Their Rationale (New York: Bloch, 1974), p. 400; as quoted in Richard H. Schwartz, Judaism and Vegetarianism (New York: Lantern Books, 2001), p. 11 https://books.google.it/books?id=zo5TqKQVcEgC&pg=PA11.
— Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979
Quelle: Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
„You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.“
— Dallin H. Oaks Apostle of the LDs Church 1932
Joy and Mercy http://www.lds.org/ensign/1991/11/joy-and-mercy, Dallin H. Oaks, November 1991
— Christopher Hitchens British American author and journalist 1949 - 2011
"Minority Report", The Nation, October 19, 1992. Also quoted in Steven Salaita, The Holy Land in Transit:Colonialism And the Quest for Canaan. Syracuse University Press, 2006.(p. 68).
1990s
„The mind can never be satisfied.“
— Wallace Stevens American poet 1879 - 1955
"The Well Dressed Man With a Beard"
Harmonium (1923)
Variante: It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Quelle: The Collected Poems
Kontext: Out of a thing believed, a thing affirmed:
The form on the pillow humming while one sleeps,
The aureole above the humming house...
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
— Thomas Hobbes, buch Leviathan
The First Part, Chapter 6, p. 29 (See also: Rene Girard)
Leviathan (1651)
— Anton LaVey, buch Satanische Bibel
The Satanic Bible (1969)
