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Eric Hoffer on Faith

1902–1983 United States

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Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

The True Believer (1951)

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

The True Believer (1951)

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.

Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

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