Eric Hoffer Quotes

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Even if the exercise of my responsibility becomes my burden, I’ll bear it. But I can tell you I am going to sleep well tonight knowing I’ve made the right decision.

These people did their duty; they acted on my orders, so they are not guilty of anything. I accept their guilt myself. Try me.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

Guilt is never very far from Rick Grimes' shoulder. It comes with the package. He's a man who takes his responsibilities very heavily, not lightly.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Duty is ours; the consequences are the Lord God's

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

I think it's my job to tell the truth.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity

People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.

I think what's dangerous is the idea that someone can wash away your sins.

Great power involves great responsibility

Is there anybody here who thinks that following the orders takes away the blame Is there anybody here who wouldn't mind a murder by another name?

Power always brings with it responsibility.

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.