Idiot Quotes - Page 8

• Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Income, Favour

  1928 The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.

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• The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Eye, Paris

  Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.379

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• To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

  Nostradamus

  War, Leader, Heirs

  Nostradamus (2013). “The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator’s house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?

  Erick Erickson

  People, House, March

  "At What Point Do People Revolt?" by Erick Erickson, www.redstate.com. March 31, 2009.

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• Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Country, Winning, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.21, Full Moon Publications

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• Love imperfectly. Be a love idiot. Let yourself forget any love ideal.

  Sark

  Forget, Ideals

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• There's a lot of idiots in the world, so live with it.

  Karl Pilkington

  World

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• Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Speak, Speak The Truth

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• But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

  Basil Bunting

  Determination, Fool, Absolutes

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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• The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

  David Weber

  World, Second Best, Worst

  David Weber (2013). “The Honor of the Queen, Second Edition”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot. So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.'

  Stephen Colbert

  Character, Self, Giving

  "Colbert spoofs cable news on Daily Show spinoff". Associated Press report, October 31, 2005.

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• Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, London, Brilliant

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

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• The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.

  Omar Khayyam

  People, Secret, Mystery

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• We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Hbo, Broadway, Directors

  "Billie Joe Armstrong and Lee Kirk on Ordinary World, Jamming With Fred Armisen, and Turning 40". Interview with Dee Lockett, www.vulture.com. Ocotber 16, 2016.

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• Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.

  Christopher Titus

  Practice, Abortion, Devil

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

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• [On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

  Nina Jacobson

  Should Have, Games, People

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• There are only two types of motorists: the idiots who drive slower than me, and the lunatics who go faster.

  George Carlin

  Two, Type, Faster

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• In a new videotape message, Texas Gov. Rick Perry urges his supporters to follow him on 'Tweeter.' After hearing about it, John McCain laughed and said, “What an idiot! It's 'The Tweeter.''

  Conan O'Brien

  Texas, Hearing, Messages

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• Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools. He puts in certain middle-range characters. And when you go to the Globe, you realize how that all works. The people who paid more sat in seats around the edge. Everybody else paid a penny. They put it into a tin box - that's why we call it the "box office." They stood in the pit, but they were very close, so when Hamlet was doing his soliloquy, it was addressed to you, the audience - right there.

  Margaret Atwood

  Character, People, Office

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview With Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2016.

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• When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all that, I understand that the superfluous things can turn to you into a very stupid idiot-type. In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise.

  Till Lindemann

  Stupid, Clothes, East Germany

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• Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.

  George Meyer

  Eggs, Coward, Weapons

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• I am very proud to be a part of '3 Idiots,' and happy that the character has worked in a big way.

  Boman Irani

  Character, Proud, Way

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• Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films and I want to see whether 3 Idiots will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country...Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.

  Boman Irani

  Country, Memories, Years

  "3 Idiots still awaits 10-year test: Boman Irani" by Robin Bansal, www.hindustantimes.com. March 20, 2010.

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• "Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Interesting

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.17

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• On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Children, Father

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.925, Library of Alexandria

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