The practice of terror serves the true believer not only to cow and crush his opponents but also to invigorate and intensify his own faith.

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Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 85 (1951)
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