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“If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.”

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers Jerry Falwell and Tammy Bakker over Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I am no longer a fool for Christ's sake. And I have no more desire to be a sheep than to be a fool. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.”

“The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.”

Men Might Lost Strong Black White Virtue Fool Stones Weak Stealing Crush Grey Sage Depraved Limes

Book:Anthem

Source: Anthem

“I have written some stories about weakness. I believe that punishment for a weak man is doubled. So when I feel upset, I always try to fool myself and say to myself, I have to be patient because I have a goal to reach.”

Men Trying Believe I Believe Goal Fool Weakness Weak Patient Upset Be Patient

Author:Osama Alomar

“Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.”

Men Mind Causes Failing Failure Pride Fool Weak Blind Vices Judgement Strongest Bias Blind Man Erring

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author

“Let me tell you about weakness! Killing the strong to prove your strength is foolish weakness. Killing fools is easy weakness. Killing the weak is evil weakness. Accomplishing your ends without killing, mastering your mind when you want to kill--that is strength!”

Want Mind Ends Evil Strong Easy Fool Prove Weakness Weak Let Me Killing Foolish

Author:Victoria Hanley

“A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.”

May Lying Fool Weak

Book:The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel

Source: The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel