Idiocy Quotes

• Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Atheist, Degrees, False Prophets

  "In His Name". Book by E. Christopher Reyes, p. 39, 2010.

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• The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

  Fidel Castro

  Ignorance, Mean, Competition

  "Made in the World". www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2012.

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• War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

  Rosanne Cash

  War, Planets

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• Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.

  John Perry Barlow

  Age, Usual, Boundaries

  "Terrorism and Democracy in Madrid". Personal blog "BarlowFriendz", March 10, 2005.

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• Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Children, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

  Ann Coulter

  Cute, Kind, Threatening

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• I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

  John Malkovich

  Levels, Impossible, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fear, Patriotic, Patriotism

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• We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody somewhere won't argue is actually a good, no idiocy that hasn't got its perfectly serious defenders, and no tyrant, past or present - no matter how bloody - without some bunch of zealot schmucks to defend him or his reputation till the last breath in their bodies - or preferably somebody else's.

  Clive Barker

  Past, Thinking, Tyrants

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• Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Political, Movement

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• A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

  Veronica Roth

  Bravery, Divergent, Lines

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

  Fidel Castro

  Ignorance, Competition

  "Made in the World". www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2012.

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• Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

  Rob Pike

  Trying, Language, Programming

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• Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

  George Santayana

  Equilibrium, Universe

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.

  David Eddings

  Perspective, Looks, You Choose

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• Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Thinking, Working Together, Disease

  T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2006). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health”, p.106, BenBella Books

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• One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Support, Paper, Recycling

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• The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

  Milan Kundera

  Music, Guitar, Eternal

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• Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.

  Julio Cortazar

  Wall, Memories, Thinking

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• I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Daughter, Mother, Two

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• An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Mind, Foundation

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds

  Cassandra Clare

  Knows, Bounds

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

  Winston Churchill

  Heartless, Conservative

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• It is not our failures that distress us so much as our idiocies.

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

  Embarrassment, Distress

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.10

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• To take a gloomy view of life is not part of my philosophy; to laugh at the idiocies of my fellow creatures is. However, at this particular moment I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.

  Noel Coward

  Philosophy, Writing, Views

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