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Quotes About Incompetence

Trump is the wrong man for the job.
~ Bob Woodward
Ayer, el dolor era una muestra de la debilidad del herido, hoy revela la incompetencia del profesional.
~ Boris Cyrulnik
Scotland Yard men were responsible for following her—and at this point, things went badly wrong. "Whether she had left before the watch began or whether she is still there, I am powerless to say," reported an exasperated Robert Anderson. "The police [are] utterly unfit for work of this kind.
~ Julie Kavanagh
The world is full of idiots, and always has been. But sometimes I wonder why such a disproportionate quantity of them end up running other people's lives.)
~ K.J. Parker
Jeremy can't do anything. I've never discovered anything he can do. I mean, he can drive a car round a track pretty well, but he wouldn't be able to light a fire.
~ James May
He had learnt it after a fashion, mostly by watching the charlatan operate. He had read many of the necessary books, but he was too hopelessly stupid to get much benefit from them.
~ Frank Norris
It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
~ Franz Kafka
Auch hat sich deine Berner Polizei ja nun wirklich ungeschickt benommen, man erschießt nun einmal keinen Hund, wenn Bach gespielt wird.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
An uneducated, half-brained serving boy with a hangover could make mock of you. I am left with no need to exert myself, and your very nature makes mockery of my mockery. And so it is that through sheer stupidity you make me look incompetent.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Janala is a fool, just bright enough to be proud of the wits she has, but stupid enough to be unaware of how outmatched they are.
~ Brandon Sanderson
One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless.
~ Henry Miller
Because I travel so much, my biggest pet peeve is dealing with travelers - the travelers who can't figure things out. My pet peeve is people who just have no idea how to travel.
~ Brie Bella
The title of Bordin's work signaled his perspective on these and similar cases: "Lethal Incompetence: Studies in Political and Military Decision-Making.
~ Steve Coll
Arrogance and stupidity is a deadly combination.
~ Steven Cooper
For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.
~ Bryce Dallas Howard
The federal bureaucracy is committed to one thing: making sure they keep their own jobs, even though they don't do them. The larger the bureaucracy, the more corrupt and incompetent it becomes. The losers are those poor people who must turn to the federal government for what they need.
~ Michael Savage
Also, as it came to be exposed later, some FSA-affiliated groups engaged in theft and robbery and claimed the Assad forces were behind it. As time went by, however, lawlessness became more pronounced and a major source of grievance for the local communities. Some FSA factions opted to leave the front lines and busy themselves with moneymaking activities in their areas. Factionalism, profit-making, and incompetence started to alienate people.
~ Michael Weiss
Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?
~ Milan Kundera
Humor: the divine flash that reveals the world in its moral ambiguity and man in his profound incompetence to judge others; humor: the intoxicating relativity of human things; the strange pleasure that conies of the certainty that there is no certainty. But humor, to recall Octavio Paz, is the great invention of the modern spirit. It has not been with us forever, and it won't be with us forever either. With a heavy heart, I imagine the day when Panurge no longer makes people laugh.
~ Milan Kundera
O humor: o relâmpago divino que descobre o mundo na sua ambiguidade moral e o homem na sua profunda incompetência para julgar os outros; o humor: a embriaguez da relatividade das coisas humanas; o estranho prazer resultante da certeza de que não há certeza.
~ Milan Kundera
Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.
~ Brian Herbert
This army lived and moved under the weight of a peculiar curse. So many incompetents wore shoulder straps, and there was so much lost motion between orders and their execution, that unless the commanding general did spend part of his time looking into the matter of his soldiers' rations, those rations were going to deteriorate very swiftly. 6 As with rations, so with weightier things.
~ Bruce Catton
The board immediately reinstated Rudy's license and sealed all the records from the public and the press--thus honoring the long-held philosophy of Florida's medical establishment that the last persons who need to know about a doctor's incompetence are the patients.
~ Carl Hiaasen
This is what happens when you put a moron in the intelligence unit: he gets even dumber.
~ Carl Hiaasen