Eric Hoffer Quotes About Protest

Quotes about: Protest

• We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

  Eric Hoffer

  Needs, Cures, Protest

• Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

  Eric Hoffer

  Originality, Protest, Deliberate

  'Passionate State of Mind' (1955) p. 21

• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Giving, Originality

  'Passionate State of Mind' (1955) p. 21

• Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sight, Answers, Literature

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