"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart."
― Eric Hoffer
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Power
― Eric Hoffer
More From Eric Hoffer
- "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
- "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
- "It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
More In Power
- "Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated."― Friedrich Nietzsche
- "Your real self – the “I am I” – is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm."― Robert Collier
- "Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size."― Virginia Woolf