To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
About this quote
- 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
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is faith enough?
- When is force needed?
Another view
Faith can endure without force.
More from Albert Camus
To create today is to create dangerously. . . Danger makes men classical, and all greatness, after all, is rooted in risk.
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