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Reinhold Niebuhr

“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.”

Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics
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