People who are afraid of their individuality will never find it in a group

[inavalan]

"True, individuals can do much through social action, and the species is a social one, but people who are afraid of their individuality will never find it in a group, but only a caricature of their own powerlessness."

—NoME Part Three: Chapter 7: Session 852, May 9, 1979

[inavalan]

"Hitler preached on the great value of social action as opposed to individual action."

—NoME Part Three: Chapter 7: Session 852, May 9, 1979

"You must realize that Hitler believed that any atrocity was justified in the light of what he thought of as the greater good. To some extent or another, many of the ideals he held and advocated had long been accepted in world communities, though they had not been acted upon with such dispatch"

—NoME Part Three: Chapter 7: Session 852, May 9, 1979

"Now, however, we come to Hiroshima, where this highly destructive bomb was exploded (on August 6, 1945) — and for what reason? To save life, to save American lives. The intent to save American lives was certainly "good" — at the expense of the Japanese this time. In that regard, America's good was not Japan's, and an act taken to "save life" was also designed to take individual lives."

—NoME Part Three: Chapter 7: Session 852, May 9, 1979

Although this isn't the true story according to Oliver Stone's documentary "The Untold History of the United States". Truman's interview was shocking to me.

"You must realize that fanatics always deal with grandiose ideals, while at the same time they believe in man's sinful nature, and the individual's lack of power. They cannot trust the expression of the self, for they are convinced of its duplicity. Their ideals then seem even more remote. Fanatics call others to social action. Since they do not believe that the individual is ever effective, their groups are not assemblies of private individuals come reasonably together, pooling individual resources. They are instead congregations of people who are afraid to assert their individuality, who hope to find it in the group, or hope to establish a joint individuality — and that is an impossibility (emphatically)."

—NoME Part Three: Chapter 7: Session 852, May 9, 1979