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Weakness Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is…
- Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
- 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.
- 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…
- The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
- 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…
More Weakness Quotes
- Feelings are the one of the most important cause behind the weakness or strength of a person. Be strong utilise them as… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends… — John J. McCloy
- The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence… — Freya Stark
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain
- Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty… — F B Meyer
- Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character) I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for… — John C. Maxwell