Evil Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Evil Power Promise Weak
When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rational behind it. — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image