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What does it mean?
Adoring a truth requires faith but also enforcement to last.
In plain terms
People need faith and force to keep believing in something.
What can you take from it?
Belief often needs enforcement.

Where it applies

  • politics
  • religion
  • science

Putting it to work

  • education
  • leadership
  • policy

Questions to consider

  • Is faith enough?
  • When is force needed?

Another view

Faith can endure without force.

More from Albert Camus

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  2. To force solitude on a man who has just come to understand that he is not alone, is that not the definitive crime against man?

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  3. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate.

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