Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.
Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.
Stupidity is nature's favorite resource for preserving consistency of opinion.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.
If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
Who is the enemy? Who is holding back more rapid movement to the better society that is reasonable and possible with available resources?. . . Evil, stupidity, apathy, the 'system' are not the enemy. . . The real enemy is fuzzy thinking on the part of good, intelligent, vital people. . . In short, the enemy is strong natural servants who have the potential to lead but do not lead, or who choose to follow a non-servant.
I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.
I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart - incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things.
[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.
He is a fool who tries to match his strength with the stronger.
There are people that tell you we gotta colonize Mars in the next 50 years if we're to survive as a human race. It's absolute stupidity. All it does is scare people - particularly young, impressionable minds who already think there isn't gonna be a planet in 30 years. Now they're thinking, since there isn't gonna be a planet, "If we don't get to Mars in 30 years, I'm gonna die. "
I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidity.
I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.