Incompetent Quotes - Page 2

• The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

  John Olver

  Criminals, Armor, Levels

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• In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence, and corruption.

  Anthony Zinni

  War, Lying, Iraq

  "Battle Ready (Commander Series)". Book by Anthony Zinni, Tom Clancy and Tony Koltz, www.nbcnews.com. 2004.

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• Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

  Dora Russell

  Marriage, Army, Law

  "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, p. 241, 1927.

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• Different people rise to the top under socialism than under capitalism. The higher on the socialist hierarchy you look, the more you will find people who are too incompetent to do the job they are supposed to do.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Jobs, People, Different

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• Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

  Barack Obama

  Bridges, Tools, Excuse

  "Obama to new grads: 'No time for excuses'" by Mark Morgenstein, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2013.

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• The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fighting, Conflict, Feels

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• ...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

  Noah Webster

  Selfish, Men, Rights

  Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

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  Our country is being run by incompetent people.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Country, People

  "GOP Debate Filled With Tough Exchanges Between Trump And Cruz". "Morning Edition" with Mara Liasson, www.npr.org. January 15, 2016.

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• The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Differences, Environment, Surroundings

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• An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Teacher, Philosopher

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.97, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

  Charley Reese

  Government, Tasks, Matter

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• It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.

  David Ogilvy

  Fire, People, Management

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• Unhappy voters thought the anemic economy, Obamacare, the collapse of U.S. foreign policy, the scandals in government, and the incompetent handling of everything from the Islamic State to Ebola were the only real issues. Democrats'€™ refusal to acknowledge them did not make these failures go away.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Real, Islamic, Government

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• An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John Gardner

  Philosophy, Humble, Water

  "Excellence, Can We be Equal and Excellent Too?" by John W. Gardner, (p. 86), 1961.

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• Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.

  Ann Brashares

  Life, Healing, Pieces

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.112, Penguin

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• Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.

  Lawrence S. Kubie

  Love, Education, Time

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• I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Idiot, Claims

  Linux-kernel mailing list, April 21, 2006.

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• I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

  Diablo Cody

  Reality, Los Angeles, Retarded

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

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• The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Evil, Mountain

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• A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.

  Baroness Orczy

  Heart, Problem, Owners

  Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.127, Xist Publishing

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• You missed with me so close? What? You failed your assassin training classes? Did you even bother to show up? Or are you just that incompetent? (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Class, Training, Assassins

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Fire”, p.15, Macmillan

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• He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Humble, Intellectual, Experts

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• as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Innocent, Creatures, Protector

  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.20, e-artnow

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• If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

  Rahul Gandhi

  People, India, Useless

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• Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation.

  Anne Lamott

  Love You, Men, Emotional

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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