Voltaire: ‘Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.’
Great quote! It is scarily relevant for today. A little research:
1765: “Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde, est en droit de vous rendre injuste.”
Translation 03: Certainly, anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
It would be interesting to consider events from this perspective. Did the German socialist leader Adolph Hitler convince many Germans of absurd views about european Jews? The American left have many absurd views. I think atrocities have been the result; we just do not recognize them. What injustices are on the horizon?