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• Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teaching, Writing, Kids

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like a stable animal, convinced he's doing good, that he's always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around f***ing up ... anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin color, creed, language, nationality, or ... leisure habits. What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Animal, Thinking, Skin Color

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• Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.

  Ken Livingstone

  Want, Ghastly

  "Livingstone and the 'morons' have killed off the Routemaster" by Philip Johnston, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 24, 2005.

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• I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking.

  George Carlin

  Real, Thinking

  George Carlin (2009). “Last Words”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• I lived through the Cold War as a child, and we always thought a nuclear bomb could end life everywhere at any time. On one hand, it created an atmosphere where you lived for the moment - because it could end at any second - but on the other, it warped a generation into thinking t there was no reasonable expectation of building a future that could be vaporized at any moment by a few morons.

  Louie Psihoyos

  Children, War, Thinking

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• Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Population, Parenthood

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.403, Inkling Books

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• Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Art, Animal

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.7, Souvenir Press

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• When I was being bullied, I had to learn not to judge myself by the opinions of intolerant morons. Then I felt much better.

  Michael R. Burch

  Judging, Opinion, Being Bullied

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• Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.

  Frank Scoblete

  Gambling, Law, Sky

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• This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.

  R.K. Narayan

  Education, Roots, Office

  R. K. Narayan (2012). “The English Teacher”, p.328, Vintage

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• It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

  Alfred Binet

  Self, Intellectual, Fundamentals

  "The development of intelligence in children" by Alfred Binet, Théodore Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite, Reprinted 1973, New York: Arno Press, (pp. 42-43), 1983.

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• It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

  Henri Michaux

  Intellectual, Insane, Pay

  Henri Michaux, Robin Magowan (2001). “Ecuador”, p.57, Northwestern University Press

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• Friends will write me letters. They run out of room on the front of the letter. They write 'over' on the bottom of the letter. Like I'm that much of a moron. Like I need that there. Because if it wasn't there, I'd get to the bottom of the page: 'And so Kathy and I went shopping and we--' That's the craziest thing! I don't know why she would just end it that way.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Running, Writing, Shopping

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• Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea that there is some public benefit in ignoramuses and morons pulling levers next to names on a ballot is one of the evil myths of post-modern America. The purpose of voting, in our country, is to select men and women with the competence and integrity to operate the mechanics of government fixed by our Constitution. For this process to have any public benefit requires that the choices be made on an intelligent, knowledgeable and reasoned basis.

  Charley Reese

  Country, Integrity, Men

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• American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's private world so that he may lock the door behind us. If there is anyone in contemporary fiction worth watching, it is Glen Hirshberg.

  Dennis Etchison

  Doors, Contemporary Fiction, Style

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• I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, 'Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.'

  Michael Savage

  Father, Mean, Cutting

  "Bill Moyers Journal" interview, www.pbs.org. September 12, 2008.

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• Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

  Dan Abrams

  Thinking, People, Very Good

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• Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you're going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Broken Heart, Falling In Love, Love You

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• The strength of the computer lies in its being a logic machine. It does precisely what it is programed to do. This makes it fast and precise. It also makes it a total moron; for logic is essentially stupid.

  Peter Drucker

  Lying, Stupid, Science

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• There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass kids can't compete academically, so they throw money into the happy laps of shrinks . . . to get back diagnoses that help explain away the deficiencies of their junior morons. I don't give a [bleep] what these crackerjack whack jobs tell you - yer kid is NOT autistic. He's just stupid. Or lazy. Or both.

  Denis Leary

  Mother, Jobs, Dad

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.98, Penguin

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• I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

  Jasper Carrott

  Music, Media, Radio

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

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• Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons" Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Plums, Bigs

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• It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.

  Lewis Black

  Distance, Two, People

  "Lewis Black's Life Advice for Millennials" by Gwynne Watkins, www.gq.com. August 22, 2013.

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• White men have screwed this country up! I would like a black, female…. everything all rolled into one.I want something different. I want a real change. People, I want a president who speaks well, who has a sense of humor. This guy is such a moron! It's beyond the point where it's a joke. He's an idiot.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Real, Men

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• I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." - Greg Heffley.

  Jeff Kinney

  School, One Day, Middle

  "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". Book by Jeff Kinney, April 1, 2007.

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