Eric Hoffer Quotes
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
Hoffer, Eric. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Harper & Brothers, 1951.
A sense of grievance can accumulate with the success of conflict no matter how it has been resolved.
In 1964 Canada stood at a crossroads. a serious political movement dedicated to separation had formed in Quebec. . A terrorist group, the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ.) was at work. The response of Prime Minister Lester Pearson was to create a bipartisan bicultural Royal Commission on Bilingualism.
This is one of the proverbs of King Solomon of the Jews, son of King David.
He was reacting to the Japanese Defense of Okinawa which was failing on every front. When Japan started the war with America, its leaders were not at all convinced that they could drive America from the Pacific, but they were convinced that America would not spend the men and material to invade Japanese territory and that they would be able to negotiate a peace at some point if the price of invasion was too high. That assumption was brought into doubt.
Scientists often have worked on something for years without success and when it finally comes, the emotion is overwhelming.
Eric Hoffer was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. His first book, The True Believer (1951), was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen, although Hoffer believed that The Ordeal of Change was his finest work.
