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"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict."
"A zebra can not change it's spots."
"If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball."
"If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?"
"The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs."
"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
"Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion."
"The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power."
"Sometimes the truth is stupid."
"The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he."
"Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful."
"I bowled a 129... It was like the Special Olympics or something!"
"If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me."
"Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."
"You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity."
"The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them."
"At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever."
"The more toppings a man has on his pizza, I believe the more manly he is. [...] A manly man don't want it piled high with vegetables! He would call that a sissy pizza."
"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity."
"If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion."
