Quotes About Incompetence

Violence," came the retort, "is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Violence is the last refuge—' '– of the incompetent.

A public official must understand from his first day in office that any show of initiative will signal the end of his career because he isn't there to be meritorious but to reach his level of incompetence with dignity.

El funcionario público debe comprender desde su primer día en la oficina que cualquier amago de iniciativa será el fin de su carrera, porque no está allí para hacer mérito, sino para alcanzar dignamente su nivel de incompetencia.

Se le ocurrió que al salir de la oficina de su hermano tendría que valerse solo y aterrizaría de narices en su propio nivel de incompetencia.

One of the most tenacious myths of modern military history is that of German military omnicompetence. Even the staunchest critics prefer to believe that military disasters happen by design, rather than to imagine that structural dysfunction, or just plain mistakes, could have riddled the premier institution of the Kaiserreich. But that was precisely what was so embarrassing about the war in SWA: it displayed German military incompetence.

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.

I'm a bad guitar tuner. I have to pay somebody to tune my guitars.

Governments do not care about your Facebook-assembled opinion. Incompetent politicians don't read your tweets; there are reasons for them being out of touch. Change does not come about for 'likes' on a page, though the ideas for it may start there.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

I have not yet witnessed a spontaneous recovery from incompetence.

You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it.

You'll find in life, Caden, that many decisions are made by morons in high places.

There are few things he can stand less than a bunch of morons standing around looking at something that doesn't work and wondering who's going to fix it.

You'll find in life, Caden, that many decisions are made by morons in high places.

The scythedom was cursed with idiots.

what social scientists call governmentality and what everybody else calls corruption, inefficiency, incompetence, and indifference.

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence or overwork?

The idiot child they've placed on the throne does not impress with his acumen.

there's a point at which sufficient incompetence is malice.

It's a terrible era when idiots are allowed to govern the blind