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Impotence Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- 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…
- Power corrupts the few, whileweakness corrupts the many.... The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the…
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- Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno
- Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to… — Peter Benenson
- The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact.… — Simone Weil
- In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence. — Peter L. Berger
- Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate… — Ellen Willis
- To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead… — Jacob Epstein
- In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for… — Saul Bellow