Eric Hoffer Corrupt Quotations

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.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.