"It is often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts."
"We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them."
"Particularly baffling has been the petulant and often sneering response to our [The United States'] unprecedented outpouring of money, food, raw materials, machines and military aid."
All from The Ordeal of Change by Eric Hoffer. This is a collection of essays starting i 1953 and published in 1963.
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Apparently all the people in the know and in power think we are still the worlds welfare system... even after all these years when those wise words were written.
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