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Weak Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
- What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
- It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the…
- We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
- When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a…
- Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over…
- The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness…
- Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
- It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
- When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
- 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…
- Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
- Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength.
- 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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