Quote by Eric Hoffer
We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the fry

We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire. – Eric Hoffer

Other quotes by Eric Hoffer

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. – Eric Hoffer

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Miscellaneous
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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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Storytelling
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There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brothers keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. – Eric Hoffer

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Fellowship
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Freedom
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. – John Locke

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Freedom

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival. – Noam Chomsky

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Freedom

Many people dont understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz… And that is really the idea of democracy – freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You dont just get out there and do anything you want. – Dave Brubeck

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Freedom

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability. – Nick Clegg

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Freedom

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Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for. – Travis White

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Challenges

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me. – T. D. Jakes

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Experience

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. – William James

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work

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. – Samuel Butler

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Medicine