Stupidity Quotes - Page 11

• Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Peace, Heart, Men

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• The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

  Barney Frank

  War, Iraq, Problem

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• It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

  C. S. Lewis

  Poverty, Humans, Overwork

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• How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

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• I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

  Warren G. Harding

  Climbing, Balls, Stuff

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• You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

  Tom Lehrer

  Fun, Stupid, Thinking

  "Stop clapping, this is serious". Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Real

  1859 'Salon of 1859', section 2, in Curiosites Esthetiques (1868).

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• What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Ignorance, Animal, Sophisticated

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2010). “The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nowadays, hoy en día, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination, grasping power, venal stupidity, real evil, don’t get me started, it’s good to know that a conversation about tacos will always engender a sense of comfort and happiness. If only we could sit down at a big round world table and eat tacos in a spirit of love we might begin to work on world peace!

  Denise Chavez

  Real, War, Our World

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• I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Grief, Heart, Mind

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

  Alexander Berkman

  Inhumanity

  Alexander Berkman (1912). “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”

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• Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Writing, Thinking, No Excuses

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• If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.

  David Bosch

  Ignorance, Character, Christian Inspirational

  David J. Bosch (2006). “Witness To The World: The Christian Mission in Theological Perspective”, p.82, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Fear, Children, Men

  "True at First Light". Book by Ernest Hemingway, ch. 17, 1999.

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• Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Stupid, Race, Government

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• Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Causes, Insult, Function

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• Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle.

  Janet Morris

  Horse, Pain, War

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• Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

  Louis C. K.

  Self, Hatred, Brain

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• Contrary to what people may say, there's no upper limit to stupidity.

  Stephen Colbert

  People, May, Limits

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• New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

  Alec Baldwin

  New York, Cities, Desperate

  ABFoundation @ABFalecbaldwin, twitter.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.

  Werner Herzog

  Eye, Animal, Looks

  "Signs of Life". DVD Audio Commentary, 2005.

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• I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

  Tilda Swinton

  Kindness, People, Trying

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  Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Silence, Mammals

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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• I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.

  Alain Delon

  Jobs, Children, Three

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

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• Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.

  Vinnie Jones

  Underestimate, Never Underestimate, Predictability

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