Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.”
Section 65, Ch.14 Unifying Agents
The True Believer (1951), Part Three: United Action and Self-Sacrifice
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Telling (2000), Ch. 4, §3 (pp. 90–91)
Context: One of the historians of Darranda said: To learn a belief without belief is to sing a song without the tune.
A yielding, an obedience, a willingness to accept these notes as the right notes, this pattern as the true pattern, is the essential gesture of performance, translation, and understanding. The gesture need not be permanent, a lasting posture of the mind or heart, yet it is not false. It is more than the suspension of disbelief needed to watch a play, yet less than the conversion. It is a position, a posture in the dance.
24 June 2011, radio interview with Family Research Council president Tony Perkins
The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover (1928), Campaign speech in New York (22 October 1928)
“Belief means nothing without actions”
Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?
“Religious = absolute belief without proof.”
Source: Friday (1982), Chapter 18 (p. 181)
"Albert Einstein" in Biographical Memoirs (1980) Vol. 51, National Academy of Sciences.
Songs of Freedom by Irish Authors (1907) Introduction. Revolutionary Song https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1907/xx/revsong.htm
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
