14 Quotes by Carlo M. Cipolla
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Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
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Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation – or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.
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Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
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The “Vasco da Gama’s era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.
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Essentially stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behaviour.
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