Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
What about you Laurens, did you think you were right ? Personally, I like to think I'm right because I know I am often wrong.
"I'm not fooled by that," you reply. "It's easy to see through the poor smokescreen of your false modesty."
All right I am hiding my real intention which is to gain world dominance and I can only achieve this by admitting I'm wrong ; after all who would believe, never mind follow, someone who always thinks and says - it is, though I may err, usually a man - "I am always right."
By accepting that I am wrong I am therefore right which makes me quite frightening whether I'm right or wrong.
Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
What about you Laurens, did you think you were right ? Personally, I like to think I'm right because I know I am often wrong.
"I'm not fooled by that," you reply. "It's easy to see through the poor smokescreen of your false modesty."
All right I am hiding my real intention which is to gain world dominance and I can only achieve this by admitting I'm wrong ; after all who would believe, never mind follow, someone who always thinks and says - it is, though I may err, usually a man - "I am always right."
By accepting that I am wrong I am therefore right which makes me quite frightening whether I'm right or wrong.
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