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Quotes About Idiots

War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.
~ Guy Sajer
Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.
~ H. L. Mencken
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
~ H.L. Mencken
I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.
~ Josh Silver
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
~ Mark Twain
The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
~ Sam Harris
Let us admit it, to irritate idiots actually is enjoyable.
~ Simon Leys
Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
~ Edward Abbey
The idea that they were going to have to-eventually-go someplace that was even hotter than this was now was worrying Harrier, but there wasn't much he could do about it at the moment. He couldn't imagine why anybody would want to live here if they had a choice. Sometimes, he thought, people were idiots.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Tu ayudante, por complicidad en fuga. El coche, por portación reiterada de pelotudos.
~ Juan Sasturain
Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.
~ Julia Quinn
Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.
~ Julia Quinn
I think it was your language," Miranda said mildly. "She said most of them were idiots, too." "That is not at all what I said," Olivia put in. "I said they were bores." "Sheep," Miranda confirmed. "Goats," Olivia added with a shrug. Turner began to look alarmed. "Good God, do the two of you speak your own language?
~ Julia Quinn
Haruhi: This is a sibling squabble, not a fight to the death! You're both wrong, and acting like idiots only proves it!
~ Bisco Hatori
I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.
~ Haruki Murakami
I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.
~ Haruki Murakami
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
~ Stanis?aw Jerzy Lec
Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.
~ Peter Lamborn Wilson
Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
He had listened to an American economist talk about how so-and-so was stupid and so-and-so was a fool, then said, "All your economic models are premised on people being smart and rational, and yet all the people you know are idiots.
~ Michael Lewis
That's what you people do, isn't it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.
~ Michael Monroe
I watched the way they looked at each other. Any idiot could see they were in love, even if they were the only two idiots who couldn't.
~ Kami Garcia
Taken as a whole, men are idiots and fools. They want what they cannot have, and fear what they do have has been gotten too cheaply to be valuable.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Children always take their own parents for idiots.
~ Julie Schumacher