“People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.”
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Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.