Sep 19 2009
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“ Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, while Faith obtains its more or less voluntary surrender. In both cases the result of the elimination of individual autonomy is—-automatism. Both Faith and Terror reduce the human entity to a formula that can be manipulated at will.
— Eric Hoffer | The Passionate State of Mind (via retropolitics)
