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Quotes About Struggle

Freedom aggravates at least as much as it alleviates frustration.
~ Eric Hoffer
a) the poor, (b) misfits, (c) outcasts, (d) minorities, (e) adolescent youth, (f) the ambitious (whether facing insurmountable obstacles or unlimited opportunities), (g) those in the grip of some vice or obsession, (h) the impotent (in body or mind), (i) the inordinately selfish, (j) the bored, (k) the sinners.
~ Eric Hoffer
When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.
~ Eric Hoffer
The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves.
~ Eric Hoffer
they are not tempted to use the slime of frustrated souls as mortar in the building of a new world.
~ Eric Hoffer
The man just out of the army is an ideal potential convert, and we find him among the early adherents of all contemporary mass movements. He feels alone and lost in the free-for-all of civilian life. The
~ Eric Hoffer
As easy a day as one could wish and no sort of unpleasantness. Still the depression this evening is as black as yesterday. I must face the fact that the chief reason for the depression is that I cannot compose.
~ Eric Hoffer
We feel free when we escape, even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.
~ Eric Hoffer
new poor coming from a ruined middle class formed the chief support of the Nazi and Fascist revolutions.
~ Eric Hoffer
People who see their lives as irremediably spoiled cannot find a worth-while purpose in self-advancement. The prospect of an individual career cannot stir them to a mighty effort, nor can it evoke in them faith and a single-minded dedication.
~ Eric Hoffer
It is understandable that those who fail should incline to blame the world for their failure.
~ Eric Hoffer
El mundo del tercer milenio seguirá siendo, muy probablemente, un mundo de violencia política y de cambios políticos violentos. Lo único que resulta inseguro es hacia dónde llevarán
~ Eric J. Hobsbawm
En resumen, y contra lo que pudiera parecer, el siglo XX mostró que se puede gobernar contra todo el pueblo por algún tiempo, y contra una parte del pueblo todo el tiempo, pero no contra todo el pueblo todo el tiempo
~ Eric J. Hobsbawm
we're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
restrictions create frustrations!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a beast that dined on the bones of men.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
even the righteous man is just a sinner livin in between sins!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Losing your job is like having your identity stolen, like having what defined you run through a paper shredder. After a while the despair gets you, and it gets you good.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
She returned to consciousness only to find herself in an unescapable nightmare.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Hard to save anybody when you're locked up, when you're too busy trying to fight to save yourself. When you've made yourself a prisoner.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
What I Wish, this I do not practice, but what I hate is what I do.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey