Quotation by Octave Mirbeau

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
Octave Mirbeau (1850–1917), French journalist, author. "Pour Jean Grave," Le Journal (Feb. 19, 1894).

Referring to a bombing campaign, which Jean Grave had allegedly incited by his inflammatory anarchist pamphlets, and for which he was to be tried the following week.
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