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Free Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self…
- 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…
- I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into…
- The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing…
- The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly…
- In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in…
- One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
- Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor…
- True loyalty between individuals is possible only in a loose and relatively free society.
- We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
- The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
More Free Quotes
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people… — Hugo Black