Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [541-560] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.~ Thomas Hobbes A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.~ Thomas Hobbes Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure.~ William Earnest Hocking Do we desire to be cradled, and then carried throughout life to our graves by this partisan propelled bureaucratic monstrosity? ...as individuals of sovereign dignity, are we now so terrified, bewildered, and impotent that our main purpose is to seek asylum from the potential hazards of freedom? Have we no faith in our natural strengths and abilities?~ Sergei Hoff I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.~ Jimmy Hoffa 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. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.~ Eric Hoffer Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.~ Eric Hoffer 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 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 be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom.~ Eric Hoffer Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.~ Eric Hoffer When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.~ Eric Hoffer 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 and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.~ Eric Hoffer 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 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. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.~ Eric Hoffer 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 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 released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.~ Eric Hoffer There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.~ Eric Hoffer 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 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 Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print