Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Tyranny of uniform thinking

"The phenomenon of uniform thought has caused misfortune throughout human history

“Over the course of the last century we all saw how the dictatorship of uniform thought ended up killing many, many people.

"Those who were responsible for such atrocities were of the mind: “it is impossible to think otherwise, one has to think like this!”

Words spoken by Pope Francis in April

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