Idiotic Quotes

• All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Religious

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.6, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Depression, Knowing

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.

  Steve Coogan

  Character, Play, Challenges

  "The Parole Officer". Interviewed with Jane Crowther, www.bbc.co.uk. October 28, 2014.

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• I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracy, Amusing, Enjoy

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.168, Vintage

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• I like idiotic comedies.

  James Gandolfini

  Comedy

  "Once Tough Guy, Now Nurturer". Interview With Melena Ryzik, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 2010.

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• Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

  Richard Ford

  Wells

  Richard Ford (2012). “Independence Day”, p.338, A&C Black

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• Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.

  Alan Grant

  Survival, Reverse, Darwinism

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• I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?

  Mika

  Mistake, Stupid, Why Not

  "Amazing Grace" by Paul Flynn, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2007.

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• Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.

  Virginia Graham

  Funny, Dog, Tails

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• The best part of being married is... you don't have to explain a lot of things. Those wordless moments when you both know that what you witnessed together is funny, idiotic, or really sweet. Being connected is pretty miraculous.

  Paul Reiser

  Sweet, Together, Married

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• The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a liability and a threat. Not only is this obvious in the presence of a celebrity culture that embraces the banal and idiotic, but also in the prevailing discourses and policies of a range of politicians and anti-public intellectuals who believe that the legacy of the Enlightenment needs to be reversed.

  Henry Giroux

  Believe, Views, Order

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

  Joshua Jackson

  Hate, Stress, Stupid

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

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• It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

  Albert Einstein

  Hate, Men, Names

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• You can be stupid once, but idiotic to do it again. I'll settle for being stupid.

  Tony La Russa

  Stupid, Settling, Being Stupid

  "Top of the sixth" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. December 29, 1997.

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• I have long since given up dealing with people who hold idiotic opinions as if they had arrived at them through thinking about them.

  Erik Naggum

  Thinking, Long, People

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• If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Looks, Chance, Understood

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

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• It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.

  Noel Coward

  Conceited, Discovery, Nuts

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.39, Vintage

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• You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor.  Why should it?  The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government.  The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.  Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, War, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

  Kate Horsley

  Men, Noble, Pity

  Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

  John Clellon Holmes

  Path, Ants, Glaciers

  John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.247, Open Road Media

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• It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Life After Death, After Death

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• As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

  Michael Lewis

  Optimism, Sometimes, Habit

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• Most societies wipe themselves out and it's interesting to read about the last days of past civilizations. You'll note that the last days of past civilizations were filled with idiotic, irrational ideas and behaviors that couldn't be explained by reason.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Past, Civilization, Ideas

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

  C. S. Lewis

  Journey, Men, People

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And what about you?" This time, it was Callie who spoke, her own pent-up energy releasing in anger, and the men turned as one to look at her, surprised that she and found her voice. "What about you and your idiotic pland to somehow restore my honor by playing guns out in the middle of nowhere with OXFORD?" She said the baron's name in disdain. "Like children? Of all the ridiculous, unnecessary, thoughtless, MALE things to do...who even FIGHTS duels anymore?!

  Sarah MacLean

  Brother, Children, Fighting

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