Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

In the harsh and violent Middle East surrounding us, there is no mercy for the weak. Only the strong survive!

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Let's do to Hoover what he does to others.