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Quote from Eric Hoffer,


"Absolute power turns its possessors
not into a God but an anti-God.
For God turned clay into men,
while the absolute despot turns men into clay."


By:

Eric Hoffer (more quotes by Eric Hoffer or books by/about Eric Hoffer)


(1902-1983) American author, philosopher, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Despotism, God, Power

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