Power Quotes by Eric Hoffer

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

— Eric Hoffer

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

— Eric Hoffer

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

— Eric Hoffer

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

— Eric Hoffer

There is no alienation that a little power will not cure.

— Eric Hoffer

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

— Eric Hoffer

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

— Eric Hoffer

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

— Eric Hoffer

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could…

— Eric Hoffer

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot…

— Eric Hoffer

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and…

— Eric Hoffer

Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still…

— Eric Hoffer

Power corrupts the few, whileweakness corrupts the many… The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them…

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Eric Hoffer

Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and…

— Eric Hoffer

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias…

— Eric Hoffer

When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their…

— Eric Hoffer

Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications…

— Eric Hoffer

“When we speak of authority at present we usually have in mind governmental authority. Actually, social order is most firm when imposed…

— Eric Hoffer

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts…

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Eric Hoffer