Eric Hoffer Quote

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.


Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer (ed. HarperCollins Publishers, 1982)


There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and...

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and...

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and...

There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and...