"The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutions--to cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender, the tendency to manipulate people and "experiment with blood." Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." --Eric Hoffer
Nothing like the maunderings of the old Leftist Hoffer. a legend in his own mind.