“What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straightforward men.”
Bonhoeffer wrote this from Tegel Prison in 1943 in a short essay called 'Are We Still of Any Use?' — a question he and his friends in the German resistance were asking themselves. They had watched a generation of brilliant, educated, capable men bend their intelligence toward catastrophe.
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