... on the historical scale, the damages.... : Quote by Arthur Koestler

“ ... on the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insignificant compared to the holocausts resulting from self-transcending devotion to collectively shared belief-systems. It is derived from primitive identification instead of mature social integration; it entails the partial surrender of personal responsibility and produces the quasi-hypnotic phenomena of group-psychology. ”

Arthur Koestler
  • From : The Ghost in the Machine
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