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Freedom Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.
- Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
- People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a…
- There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.
- Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
- The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.
- 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…
- It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
- 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…
- Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is…
- 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…
- When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture,…
- Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter.…
- 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.
- The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
- There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and…
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