Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be.
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 56 (1929; rev. 1970).
-- Aleister Crowley, (Oct 12 1875-1947), English occult writer; The Great Beast was a writer of occult lure and Black Magic rites.