Eric Hoffer Quotes About Freedom
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Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.
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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.
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