Eric Hoffer Quotes About Faith
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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
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