Nov 19, 2008
A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.- Friedrich Nietzsche Attribution: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 2, p. 242, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Human, All-Too-Human, “Man in Society,” aphorism 310, “Keeping Them Waiting,” (1878).
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