#truebelievers — Public Fediverse posts
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The fiercest fanatics are often selfish people who were forced, by innate shortcomings or external circumstances, to lose faith in their own selves. They separate the excellent instrument of their selfishness from their ineffectual selves and attach it to the service of some holy cause. And though it be a faith of love and humility they adopt, they can be neither loving nor humble.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 2, ch. 7, § 38 (2.7.38) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/67490/
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@wdlindsy we look back (20/20 hindsight) at #Hitler’s inner circle as evil incarnate: Hermann #Göring, Joseph #Goebbels, Heinrich #Himmler, and Reinhard #Heydrich.
I wonder if at the time, in the 1930’s, these folks were #sanewashed to the German #truebelievers as reasonable governance?