Eric Hoffer Quotes About Generosity

Quotes about: Generosity

• 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 weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Spring, Winning, Power

  "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 42, 1955.

• We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Winning, Generosity, Weakness

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

• Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Giving Up, Commitment, Generosity

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 44, 1973.

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