Eric Hoffer Quotes About Freedom

Quotes about: Freedom

• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sarcastic, Freedom, Sarcasm

  Passionate State of Mind (1955) p. 21

• The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

  Eric Hoffer

  Freedom, Tests

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

• We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

  Eric Hoffer

  Freedom, Fire, Frying Pans

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

• Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

  Eric Hoffer

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

• To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.

  Eric Hoffer

  Respect, Freedom, Mean

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

• Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

  Eric Hoffer

  Freedom, Energy, Mass

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

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