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Barter Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we…
- To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens…
More Barter Quotes
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The colonists are by the law of nature free-born, as indeed all man are, white or black...It is a clear truth that… — James Otis
- It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own — James Otis
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke
- The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That… — Immanuel Wallerstein
- I do not choose to be a common man…it is my right to be uncommon—if I can…I seek opportunity—not security…I want to… — Peter O'Toole
- When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war. — Len Deighton
- An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out… — William Butler Yeats