There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
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Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
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