240 Quotes About Followers

I say in my talks it takes two things to make it happen again, a new Hitler and social conditions like in the thirties. But that's not true. It takes three things: the Hitler, the conditions, and the people to follow the Hitler.And don't you think he'd find them?No, not enough of them. I really think people are better and smarter now, not so much thinking their leaders are God. The television makes a big difference.

If you will librate people from there fake rituals, they will become your retinue.

She wanted the answer to the question. She was living in the before of something, and she was getting tired of it. The dangerous thing about the way she felt . . . was that she didn't know exactly what she wanted to happen, and she didn't care that she didn't know. Almost any change would do.

The frustrating part of it, writing a book she wasn't really writing, was that she had been good at this once, when she was young.

She wanted to be what she already was, even if nobody knew it yet: a celebrity. A person, exaggerated.

Her aloneness was so random, so total and unprovoked . . .

She was thinking that all that stretched in front of her was doing things she didn't want to do.

. . . though she couldn't admit it directly, not even to herself.

The smile she gave back to him made her feel like she was someone else, someone used to being part of things.