Stupid Quotes - Page 114

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. BecauHse people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we will be automatically drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say "you're not going to be making national decisions for us"

Well, I used to look like this when I was young and now I still do.

50% of all married people are women

Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly revolutionary. What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!

They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please. That's how I know it doesn't exist.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.

I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.

Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.

It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of the electorate in 2012 could look a lot like it did this year.

One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

When youre young, youre stupid.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.

Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.

I saw more stupid people in graduate school and three decades in academia than I ever did who ran 100 acres without going broke.

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

When you think you are the king of the world, you are really stupid in my opinion because in this life every person is important.

I never did heroin, because I thought that meant I was doing heavy drugs, which shows you the insanity of doing drugs. I probably should have done heroin, because I understand heroin actually makes you feel good. Cocaine just makes you stupid.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.