“We keep acting without thinking and you think the solution is to do it one more time. You have allied yourself with stupid, violent men, and you are trying to convince yourself that being stupid and violent will work. That makes you stupid too. I will never help you. I’ll fight you now.”

—  Daniel Abraham

Source: Abaddon's Gate (2013), Chapter 39 (p. 404)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "We keep acting without thinking and you think the solution is to do it one more time. You have allied yourself with stu…" by Daniel Abraham?
Daniel Abraham photo
Daniel Abraham141
speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969

Related quotes

Clive Staples Lewis photo

“The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.”

Clive Staples Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia

The Magician's Nephew (1955), Ch. 10: The First Joke and Other Matters
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956)

Paul Graham photo

“Being mean makes you stupid. That's why I hate fights. You never do your best work in a fight, because fights are not sufficiently general. Winning is always a function of the situation and the people involved. You don't win fights by thinking of big ideas but by thinking of tricks that work in one particular case. And yet fighting is just as much work as thinking about real problems.”

Paul Graham (1964) English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist

"Mean People Fail", November 2014

Jacques Barzun photo

“Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.”

Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian

Orson Scott Card photo

“I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

David Nicholls photo

“And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Scott Lynch photo

“You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Interlude “Locke Stays for Dinner” section 1 (p. 121)
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

Philippe Starck photo

“I think if I directly design their apartment, I will not help them… If you are rich and famous and you buy an apartment (house) and you don't know what to do, you will rent an interior designer. But in the end you will not make your own home. You will take the prefab life made by your interior designer and that is stupid. With ICON you will do it yourself.”

Philippe Starck (1949) French architect and industrial designer

Starck (2006) in: "Starck Ting: March 2006" at starckting.blogspot.com, 2006-03-01

Louis C.K. photo

“If you do something and people think you’re stupid, just go for crazy. You get more respect that way because nobody likes stupid people.”

Louis C.K. (1967) American comedian and actor

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0894112/ (1996)

Dan Brown photo

“Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince and mind to think as you want it to think, an you have an ally”

Dan Brown book Digital Fortress

Source: Digital Fortress

Gustave Flaubert photo

“Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Related topics