Idiocy Quotes - Page 3

• Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Energy, Paganism, Meant To Be

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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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• Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Kindness, Animal, Top Down

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.158, Transaction Publishers

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• In the United States alone, we spend seven times as much on war as on education. There's something wrong there. On this Memorial Day, we should certainly honor those who have died at war, but we should dedicate this day, not so much to their memory, but to the search for a way to end the idiocy of the wars that killed them.

  Andy Rooney

  Memorial Day, Memories, War

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• Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eigh­teenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now I rather thought it might be due to the idiocy of eighteenth-century men.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Men, Thinking

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1036, Dell

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• "Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Objectivity, Might, Subjectivity

  "Fictional character: Sigismundo Celine". The Historical Illuminatus book series, 1982-1991.

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• Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

  Myrtle Reed

  Letters, Love Letter, Evidence

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• California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

  Gertrude Atherton

  California, Vices, Youth

  Gertrude Atherton (2014). “The Avalanche”, p.101, The Floating Press

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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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• The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Ideas, Intellectual

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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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• O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Humanity, Ticklish

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.28, e-artnow

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• Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

  Cory Doctorow

  Violence, Terrorism, Hundred

  "BBC Photographer Prevented From Shooting St Paul's Because He Might Be "Al Qaeda Operative"". boingboing.net. November 30, 2009.

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• The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.

  Rebecca West

  Fate, Men, Cells

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.

  Helen Mirren

  Jubilee, Celebration, Silver

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• Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple.

  Kyle Bass

  Simple, Political, Gold

  BBC HARDTalk Interview, November 15, 2011.

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• All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, People, Brutality

  "Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche".

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• The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, America, Poetry

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.149, Penguin

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• Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.

  Stephen Fry

  Horse, Sorry, Laughter

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• The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?

  Larry Ellison

  Fashion, Talking, Ideas

  "Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Different, Use

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.94, Princeton University Press

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• If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.

  Starhawk

  Art, Winning, Psychology

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• I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Atheist, People, Effort

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

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• In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town.

  W. C. Fields

  Lying, Cities, People

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• I think the defect actually lies with male artists. Male artists often border on idiocy, while it's important for a woman not to be that way, if possible. Women are outstanding in science, just as good as men.

  Georg Baselitz

  Lying, Artist, Men

  "Georg Baselitz Is a Sexist Grump". SPIEGEL Interview, hyperallergic.com. January 30, 2013.

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