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

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. – Eric Hoffer

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Fear
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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival. – Eric Hoffer

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Evolution
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Man was natures mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. – Eric Hoffer

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Nature
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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths. – Greg Walden

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Freedom

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. – L. Neil Smith

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Freedom

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. – Marilyn Monroe

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Freedom

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. – Edward Gibbon

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Freedom

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Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. – Michel de Montaigne

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Confidence

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. – Pierre Berton

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Freedom

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love. – Dario Argento

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Hope

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. – Soren Kierkegaard

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God