### Michele Baptiste

**We must fear stupidity more than evil**  
This paraphrase is often attributed to **Dietrich Bonhoeffer**, the German pastor and theologian executed by the Nazis in 1945.

In his _Letters and Papers from Prison_, he wrote an essay on **“stupidity” versus “evil.”**  
His point was that while evil is often easier to identify and resist, stupidity is more dangerous because:

- Stupid people can be manipulated into serving evil without realizing it.
- Unlike evil, stupidity doesn’t recognize reason or argument - it sprea…

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blame and cast off when needed.\  
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Amy Siskind](https://theweeklylist.substack.com/p/week-21-the-return?selection=fdd85434-b106-4d73-b481-02c89a0a811c)

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