• To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

  Eric Hoffer
  American writer 1902-1983
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. characteristic
2. arbitrariness
3. all-powerful
4. confidence
5. conceive
6. could

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. by : Eric Hoffer

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