For me this was the most relevant passage: >The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conv

For me this was the most relevant passage: >The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings. (my emphasis) B was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident, who was sent to a concentration camp in 43 and was hanged 2 years later as one of the last dissidents, by personal directive from Hitler. For all other German speakers, here's the original: https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Von_der_Dummheit https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Von_der_Dummheit