April 29, 2007
Fanaticism...
...handled adroitly...
...if Savonarola only tells the ladies of Florence that they ought to tear off their jewels and finery and sacrifice them to God, they offer him a cardinal's hat, and praise him as a saint; but if he induces them to actually do it, they burn him as a public nuisance.
--Bernard Shaw, preface to Androcles and the Lion.
Posted by Ideofact at April 29, 2007 10:34 PMComments
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