Quotes by Hoffer, Eric

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one' >>

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away th >>

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory >>

Quotations about Power

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. >>

Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People. >>

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind w >>

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Hoffer, Eric