Eric Hoffer Quotes

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.

It's a human right to be able to have a relationship.

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

Trust is the glue that holds everything together.

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

I just want a nice guy who loves me and who I love.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed ridiculous to suppose that a man had less rights in himself than one of his neighbors, or indeed all of them put together. This would be slavery, and not that liberty which the bill of rights has made inviolable, and for the preservation of which our government has been charged.

Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference.

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.