“One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.”

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), On Stupidity

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German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906–1945

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