Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Being trapped between keeping beliefs and being free of them leads to inhuman acts.
- In plain terms
- If you can't change beliefs or leave them, you might do terrible things.
- What can you take from it?
- Recognize how belief traps lead to extremism.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do beliefs constrain freedom?
- What drives inhuman excesses?
Another view
Not all rigid beliefs lead to violence.
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