Anatole France Quotes
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Bush made religion a driver of his Presidency and policies in a way far in excess of other American Presidents. See {633550}. There has always been some debate as to whether he actually believed that or he was just saying it to pander to the religious conservatives who formed an important component of his base.
The Revolution was not successful.
This quotation illustrates how irrational this terrorist had been. He actually said that religious faith and belief is less important than the repulsing an enemy who is attacking that faith. The result is that he and his followers used methods that were immoral and hateful to the very religion he was “defending”. There is a logical parallel with those in the West who would give up Constitutional Rights to defend the Constitution from enemies.
Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament".
