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"We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid."
"It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way."
"As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl."
"Photogenic is a stupid, nonsensical word, but it is also a great mystery."
"We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?"
"Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."
"I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them."
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
"Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!"
"The problem is that everybody treats teenagers like they're stupid."
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral."
"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied."
"Stupidity is a talent for misconception."
"What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct."
"People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing."
"If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both."
"What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition."
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
"In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony."
