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Eric Hoffer Quotes about Evil

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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Eric Hoffer
Power, Evil, Promise
Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.

Eric Hoffer
Men, Ideas, Evil
Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

Eric Hoffer
Believe, Evil, Doubt
Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Eric Hoffer
Compassion, Evil, Literature
Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.

Eric Hoffer
Roots, Evil, Littles
Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

Eric Hoffer
Evil, Deception, Able

When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Eric Hoffer
Evil, Giving, Promise

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

Eric Hoffer
Growing Up, Evil, Trying
"Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1973.

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