The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (Il Mulino)
As long as there are humans, the irrational will find its voices and means of spreading. Rationality is something to be acquired by individuals, not by mass movements or technological progress.
Robert Greene • The Laws of Human Nature
Ne sous-estimons jamais la bêtise humaine. Tant sur le plan personnel que collectif, les hommes sont enclins aux activités autodestructrices.
Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)
Le Bon’s book gives a play by play of how people respond to crisis. Almost instantaneously, he writes, ‘man descends several rungs in the ladder of civilization’.3 Panic and violence erupt, and we humans reveal our true nature.
Rutger Bregman • Humankind: A Hopeful History
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
Albert Camus • The Plague
Dr. Maurice Rosenau, in his Pan-Galactic Humbug or. Three Billion Dupes says: