Eric Hoffer Quotes

Choice is an American value.

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Freedom is relative.

Isn't allowing people a choice what America is all about?

The most powerful single force in the world today…man’s eternal desire to be free and independent.

A necessary corollary of giving individuals freedom to choose how to conduct their lives is acceptance of the fact that different individuals will make different choices.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

The human mind is ever oscillating between the extremes of authority and individualism; and if the former – the Catholic idea – finds lodgment in the minds of this people, we ring the death-knell of American liberties.

Freedom ia better than non-freedom.

I think that people should absolutely be allowed to do whatever they want with their bodies and to live the life they want to lead.

This is not supposed to be a fascist country, where you are forced to do things you don't want to do. This is a free country.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

I´m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

Nobody likes not having freedom.

When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.

If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas) "It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

People have to do what they want to do.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.