A Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
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Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
We find that at present the human race is divided politically into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. That is, by an optimistic observer. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become politicians; the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly out-numbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics or philosophy; while the ninety fools plod off behind the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare.
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.
There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Knaves starve not in the land of fools.
Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus. The learned fools are always disturbed by the blessed fools. They had to murder him because his very presence was uncomfortable; his very presence was such a pinnacle of peace, love, compassion and light, that all the learned fools became aware that their whole being was at stake. If this man lived then they were fools, and the only way to get rid of this man was to destroy him so they could. again become the learned people of the race.
No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
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