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"There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon."
"There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness."
"He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence."
"One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet."
"An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished."
"There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ."
"Simplicity is not the same as stupidity"
"Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning."
"There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life."
"Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity."
"There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal."
"A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread."
"That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs."
"Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity, unfortunately, is permanent."
"A prosperous fool is a grievous burden."
"I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him."
"Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity."
"In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other."
"I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me."
"One whose troops repeatedly congregate in small groups here and there, whispering together, has lost the masses. One who frequently grants rewards is in deep distress. One who frequently imposes punishments is in great difficulty. One who is at first excessively brutal and then fears the masses is the pinnacle of stupidity."
