Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
“It's such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don't even know that you're being subtle and vicious”
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Ayn Rand
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The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead
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Ann Coulter
(1961) author, political commentator
Hannity & Colmes (5 May 2004).
2004
Context: I think the other point that no one is making about the abuse photos is just the disproportionate number of women involved, including a girl general running the entire operation. I mean, this is lesson, you know, number 1,000,047 on why women shouldn't be in the military. In addition to not being able to carry even a medium-sized backpack, women are too vicious.
“5371. Virtue hath such Charms, that even the Vicious inwardly reverence it.”
Thomas Fuller (writer)
(1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : There is no Man so bad, but he secretly respects the good.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Source: A Hunger Like No Other
Baba Hari Dass
(1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Source: Ashtanga Yoga Primer, 1981, p.11
“On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.”
Linus Torvalds
(1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
<nowiki>Linus Torvalds' Best Quotes from LinuxCon Europe 2014</nowiki>, Clark, Libby, 2014-10-18, 2014-10-18 http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/791788-linus-torvalds-best-quotes-from-linuxcon-europe-2014,
2010s, 2014
“You’re either being terrifically subtle or making no sense at all.”
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 13 (p. 100)
Sun Tzu
book
The Art of War
Alternative translation: Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.
Alternative translation: O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
The Art of War, Chapter VI · Weaknesses and Strengths
Context: Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
