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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• Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fear, Patriotic, Patriotism

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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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• What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

  Marie Corelli

  Laughter, Thinking, Laughing

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.31, The Floating Press

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• Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Facts, Oppression

  Statement to the Argentine Society of Letters, 1946.

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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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• 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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• There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

  Jim Butcher

  Audacity, Lines, Fine

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.156, Penguin

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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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• If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

  Charlemagne

  Revolt, Ifs

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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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• What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade.
  The years thunder by.

  Sterling Hayden

  Lying, Years, Pyramids

  "Wanderer". Book by Sterling Hayden, 1963.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.

  Jaroslav Hašek

  Army, Special, Idiot

  Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War”

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• The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Intelligent, Support

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• One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Ideas, Majority, Able

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• This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Doe, Rockets, Initiative

  Elizabeth Moon (2004). “Marque and Reprisal”, p.37, Del Rey

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• It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us

  Carlos Castaneda

  Energy, Conquer

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Second Ring of Power”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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