“Of all the tyrannies on human kind
The worst is that which persecutes the mind.”
Pt. I, lines 239–240.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Poverty is the worst kind of violence.”
Quoted without reference to earlier source, time or location in A Just Peace through Transformation: Cultural, Economic, and Political Foundations for Change (1988) by the International Peace Association
Disputed
“She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.”
Source: Fear is the Key
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/snake-eyes-1998 of Snake Eyes (7 August 1998)
Reviews, One-star reviews
“Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.”
Source: Sweethearts
“Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.”
Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)
“There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.”
Source: The Magic Mountain
“The worst of failure in this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.”
Ego 7 (1945), p. 153, July 21, 1944.
On von Stauffenberg's bomb plot.
“War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.”
Source: On War (1832), Book 1, Chapter 1, Section 3, Paragraph 1.
Context: Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
