“Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.”
Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
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(1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
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Source: La Otra Historia.
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Meredith Tax
(1942) American writer
Source: "Culture is not Neutral, Whom Does it Serve?" (1972), p. 15