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Quotes About Idiots

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.
~ Jonathan King
Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.
~ Peter Lamborn Wilson
Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
~ Gallagher
I say to you, you want a thrill, volunteer to be an umpire. I'd like you to go just work the bases some day. Just go do that. You're going to love it. Try the slow-pitch stuff. You'll love it. Ask my son - he tried it! He said, 'I've never seen so many idiots in all my life.'
~ Doug Harvey
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
THE FINAL TOUCH Portrait of nobody in particular Idiots are really one hundred per cent when they are also intelligent.
~ Piet Hein
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
Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it. - The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse
~ Ray Bradbury
During the Vietnam War, Sontag went off to Hanoi as one of those people Lenin called "useful idiots"—that is, people who could be expected to defend Communism without any interest in investigating the brutality behind it.
~ Joseph Epstein
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them
~ Walter Kerr
I ask the reader- is there any reason to believe that these idiots will fail to blow up the world? The answer is: Only by accident will the present power elite, in this country and others, fail to blow up the world.
~ Daniel Pinkwater
If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That's why people who do nothing are idiots, but idiots who do nothing are life-savers.
~ James McGregor
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
~ Douglas Adams
Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots
~ Douglas Adams
A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced.
~ Tracey Ullman
Honest tax payers salute the Delhi couple who refused to obey the fake corona protocol of mask, but idiots and bootlicker of Govt are blaming that couple.
~ Rameshh Shanegar
How had her mother fallen in with these idiots?
~ Karin Slaughter
There are more idiots in the world than bright ones, but it's the odd good one that makes a big difference.
~ Karl Pilkington
Men. <...> They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.
~ Cindy Gerard
God preserve me from idiots and men in love, which is the same thing.
~ M. V. Heberden
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them
~ Walter Kerr
I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.
~ Kristin Hersh
I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.
~ Paul Gauguin
Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.
~ Tom Christiansen