Eric Hoffer Quotes

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

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

Either move or be moved.

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.

It is indeed a law of politics as well as of physics, that a body in action must overcome a body at rest.

Each crisis brings its word and deed.

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

As in nature, so in politics: Every action has a reaction.

I've never been interested in pure movement or pure stability, but in the unstable.

What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?

If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done.

In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn't can you do everything; the question is, can you do anything?

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.