Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege."
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question."
Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question."
Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem."
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"When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years."
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"Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived."
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"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
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"There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give."
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"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
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"The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about."
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"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?"
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"Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education."
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"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
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"We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers."
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"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
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"An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation."
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"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
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"I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged."
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"The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future."
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"The reason there are so many stupid people is because it's illegal to kill them."
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"Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted."
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"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
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"God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole sinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top. The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire"
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