“Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.”

— Eric Hoffer

Section 184
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)

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American philosopher 1898–1983

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