Dumb Quotes - Page 26

• Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

  John Marston

  Strong, Taken, Men

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• No wonder politicians love government schools. Where do you think the dumb masses come from that can be so easily led and manipulated?

  Neal Boortz

  School, Thinking, Government

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• The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Art, Heroism, Tough

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• People say, 'The government couldn't carry out the September 11th attack, it's too big, they'd get caught!' They DID get caught! They're just counting on you to be dumb and to go along with it.

  Alex Jones

  Government, People, September 11

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• There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Suicide, Kids, Mind

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• Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.

  Erwin Rommel

  Smart, Men, Giving

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• The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

  Norman Foster

  Driving, Architecture, Computer

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• Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

  Dave Ramsey

  Money, Kings, Debt

  FaceBook post by Dave Ramsey from Nov 10, 2016

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• 'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Smart, Class, Differences

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• Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

  Greg Camp

  Running, Fun, Smart

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• On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Ghost, Speak

  Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “The New Book of Days”, p.372, Random House

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• I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

  Scott Weiland

  Periods, Young

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• As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you're gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headachesmake you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Smart, Believe

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• The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid.  Awareness atrophies.  Dumb gets dumber.  Lists are everywhere – the five things you need to know about so-and-so; the eight essential qualities of such-and-such; the 11 delights of somewhere or other.  We demand shortcuts, as if there are shortcuts to genuine experiences.  These lists are meaningless.

  Roger Cohen

  Stupid, Eight, Quality

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• It's kind of dumb; everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want and just because you're a fan of a band for a longer period of time doesn't mean you have a greater stake of claim to the band or the music.

  Ray Toro

  Mean, Want, Able

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• I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care

  Dean Kamen

  People, Answers, Care

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• I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

  John Entwistle

  Mean, Eighteen Years Old, America

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• You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from banquet tables prepared for you by your ancestors. You sit under the shade of trees that you did not plant or cultivate or care for. You have a choice in life, you can just sit back, getting fat, dumb, and happy, consuming all the blessings put before you, or it can metabolize inside of you, become fuel to get you into the fight, to make this democracy real, to make it true to its words that we can be a nation of liberty and justice for all.

  Cory Booker

  Real, Fighting, Opportunity

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• I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Stupid, School, Students

  Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to take away politicians' jobs... When the government sees its people as the enemy, sooner or later that feeling gets to be mutual. And that's when the real weirdness begins.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Real, Government

  Matt Taibbi (2008). “The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire”, p.131, Spiegel & Grau

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• With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Ideas, Trying, Retail

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• Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Animal, Slavery, Littles

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Animal, Civilization, Black

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

  Stuart Wilde

  Winning, Victory, Moral

  Stuart Wilde (2011). “The Three Keys to Self-Empowerment”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct martyr/victim, aesthetic terrorists will not involve themselves in the dubious rewards of celebrity. The best of them will work alone, already a part of the enemy camp, and in chameleon-like style master the fifth-column algorithms to subvert the ancient regime. We won't know them by their name but their compensation will be to affect the outcome of the planet. Until then, there's a lot of work to be done.

  Adam Parfrey

  Play, Names, Style

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