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“Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.”
Barbara W. Tuchman“A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of martyrdom, arises only from faith in the folly of the Cross.”
Emile Bougaud, The Life of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque“Answer a fool according to his folly.”
Bible“Folly is a child of power.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam“To forsake wisdom is to seek folly,to seek folly is to seek evil,to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil,and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.”
Matshona Dhliwayo“The folly of one man is the fortune of another.”
Sir Francis Bacon“He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.”
La Rochefoucauld“The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam“Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam“His foe was folly and his weapon wit.”
Anthony Hope