"Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake."

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Raymond E. Feist

#Stupidity Quotes #Underestimate Quotes #Wealth Quotes

“The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.”
“It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.”

Source : Brenda Peterson (2000). “Singing to the Sound: Visions of Nature, Animals & Spirit”, Newsage Press
“There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.”
“If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men's vices, would but turn their thoughts inwardly, they would probably find that they have a great work to do at home; and that, when that shall have been completed, they will be little disposed to do more towards correcting the vices of others, than simply to give to others the results of their experience and observation.”
“Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.”
“She poked him in the center of his chest with two fingers to punctuate her words. â€œYou are an unfeelingâ€â€”poke â€”â€œtraitorousâ€â€”pokeâ€”â€œmistrustingâ€â€”pokeâ€”â€œrudeâ€â€”poke â€”â€œbooby!â€ Every poke turned him mortal, but Lord Maccon didnâ€™t seem to mind it in the least. Instead he grabbed the hand that poked him and brought it to his lips. â€œYou put it very well, my love.”
“If I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.”

Source : "Fictional character: Doc Holliday". "Tombstone", 1993.
“The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.”

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