We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. – Eric Hoffer
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. – Eric Hoffer
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer
What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? – Eric Hoffer
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change were used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that were moving closer and closer to that tipping point. – Al Gore