Cruelty lurks in our instincts, and fanaticism is a camouflage for cruelty. Fanatics are seldom genuinely humane, and those who sincerely dread cruelty will be slow to adopt a fanatical creed.
Source: The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, 1920, chap.1:What is hoped from Bolshevism,
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