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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.
If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which.
If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.
Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.
The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement.
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
I called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who answered said, "Bob is on vacation. Would you like to hold?
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.
Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?
A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.
As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.
Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity
The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.
But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.
He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he cannot perceive. And he's a fool a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.
The very valuable time of the humanity often passes with the incredible stupidities and with the local matters not worth a penny!
But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.
Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.