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Resentment Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.
- To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a…
- 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…
- The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the…
- 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…
More Resentment Quotes
- Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person whom you hold the feelings against. It's like drinking poison and then hoping… — London Mond
- The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was… — Al Capp
- When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it… — Doris Lessing
- The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part… — Elbert Hubbard
- Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die. — Nelson Mandela
- To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible,… — Maximus the Confessor
- Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else. — Alice May
- When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease. — Elizabeth I