Power & Freedom — Quotes from The Asylum
Why is our political class so power hungry? Maybe this is an answer.
I will be posting a new book review / essay in the next couple of days based on Eric Hoffer’s book, Working and Thinking on the Waterfront. I’m calling it, “The American Spirit According to Eric Hoffer.”
Transcription
“Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.”1
— Eric Hoffer, Working and Thinking on the Waterfront
Notes
Hoffer, Eric, Working and Thinking on the Waterfront, Perennial Library, Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1970. pp. 146-147.
Considering the dumbocraps, it sounds logical. Too lazy and/or stupid to actually work towards something concrete.