"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak." ― Eric Hoffer Topic(s): Power Tags: promise More From Eric Hoffer "It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate." "I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us." "There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other." More In Power "The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain."― Susan B. Anthony "There is energy and power in a crisis."― Andrew Cuomo "The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others."― Jon Meacham