Ademption

“It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously,” Daniel Kahneman noted, “but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.”
― Philip E. Tetlock, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

“To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him. 71”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“Now laws remain respected not because they are just but because they are laws. That is the mystical basis of their authority. They have no other. It serves them well, too. Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing. No person commits crimes more grossly, widely or regularly than our laws. If anyone obeys them only when they are just, then he fails to obey them for just the reason he must!”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.     142”
― Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition