Quote by Eric Hoffer
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without numb

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. – Eric Hoffer

Other quotes by Eric Hoffer

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. – Eric Hoffer

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power
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer

Category:
Obscurity
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. – Eric Hoffer

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Failure
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Other Quotes from
Cowardice/Weakness
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. – Epictetus

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. – George A. Knight

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life. – Proverb

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving dear ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice. I can no more preach nonviolence to a coward than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes. – Mahatma Gandhi

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He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. – Kenneth Baker

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. – Benjamin Franklin

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Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. – Swedish Proverb

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