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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.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
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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.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971, p. 24
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An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
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Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Pure and complete sorrow is about as impossible as pure and complete joy.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain options makes it impossible to earn a living.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.: Daisaku Ikeda
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.: Baron Henry Peter Brougham
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Technology and the Future

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