“ I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. ”
- George Berkeley- Copy
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“ An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark — that is critical genius. ”
- Billy Wilder- Copy
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“ Let me say with total sincerity that I never said that, and it has been misquoted,... These are not my words, and I would go to the extent of saying I am not so silly and stupid to make comments of this sort. ”
- Pervez Musharraf- Copy
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“ Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression. ”
- Ludwig von Mises- Copy
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“ Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. ”
- Barbara Tuchman- Copy
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“ I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust. ”
- Joe Bamford- Copy
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“ Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. ”
- Dee W. Hock- Copy
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“ Every day, the New York Times carries a motto in a box on its front page. All the News That's Fit to Print, it says. It's been saying it for decades, day in and day out. I imagine most readers of the canonical sheet have long ceased to notice this bannered and flaunted symbol of its mental furniture… ”
- Christopher Hitchens- Copy
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“ The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration… Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. ”
- Frank Harris- Copy
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“ What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned. ”
- Claud Cockburn- Copy
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