When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.Rate it:(0.00 / 0 votes)Say it

Arthur Koestler

British writer (born in Hungary) who wrote a novel exposing the Stalinist purges during the 1930s (1905-1983)

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