Eric Hoffer Quotes About Equality

Quotes about: Equality

• People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self.

  Eric Hoffer

  Equality, Self, People

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

• Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Passion, Equality

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Equality, Atmosphere, Liberty

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

• 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 but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Equality, Fraternity, Spoiled

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Equality, Excellence, Matter

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