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It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance,

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Eric Hoffer
Spring, Winning, Power
"The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 42, 1955.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Eric Hoffer
Winning, Generosity, Weakness
Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Eric Hoffer
Break Up, Heart, Winning

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.

Eric Hoffer
Winning, Europe, People
Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.9, Harper Collins

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.

Eric Hoffer
Heart, Winning, Power

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