Dio Quotes

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Our band will never change , we will always be 5 singing idiots .

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.

Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back.

Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

Las Vegas turns women into men and men into idiots.

There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

I'm a very lucky person. I'm an idiot, and I've shoveled through life rather nicely so far, so I don't feel like I deserve good treatment.

Never surrender to the momentum of mediocrity.

The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

Ideology is the science of idiots.

If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.