Imbeciles Quotes

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Struggle, Cutting

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• When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

  Confucius

  Wise, Moon, Men

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• The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Epithet, Bothered

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• God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

  Camille Pissarro

  Children, Artist, Care

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• The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Knowing, Turning Points

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• I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.

  Morrie Brickman

  Smart, Mean, Men

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• The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Political, Suffering, Handle

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from May 17, 2013

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• When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sex, Men, Patents

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• There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

  Umberto Eco

  Stupid, Mad, Four

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• What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.

  Pablo Picasso

  Heart, Eye, Artist

  "Picasso & Things".

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• The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

  Harlan Ellison

  World

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 1998.

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• The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Queens, Want, Knows

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

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• Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Clever, Fun, Animal

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• With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Men, Theory Of Evolution

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, February 24, 1871.

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• An imbecile is never bored: he contemplates himself.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Bored, Contemplating

  Remy de Gourmont (1928). “Remy de Gourmont: Selections from All His Works”

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• Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you..." ... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible. "Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?

  Eoin Colfer

  Stupid, Thinking, Hollies

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• Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

  Charles Davenport

  Two, Parent, Offspring

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• As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

  Ernest Renan

  Reflection, Men, Atheism

  "Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing 'The Tempest' of William Shakespeare". Book by Ernest Renan (Act 2, Scene 1), 1878.

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• When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Broken Heart, Children, Broken Promises

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• In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.

  Simon Jordan

  Regret, Fans, Calling

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• You mean to say that when an imbecile walks into a church, office, day care center, or school, stumbling about, almost zombie-like, with gun-filled hands at his side, blabbering incoherently to his next victim, the reaction of grown men and women is to run, cry, whimper, and hide under a desk or pew? The sheeping of America is nearly complete.

  Ted Nugent

  Running, School, Mean

  Ted Nugent (2001). “God, Guns & Rock'N'Roll”, p.43, Regnery Publishing

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• It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Cutting, Eugenics, Waiting

  Buck v. Bell (1927)

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• An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

  Billy Wilder

  Work, Dark, Together

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• Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Beautiful, Children, Mets

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• If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Writing, Survival

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