Eric Hoffer Weakness Quotations

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

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