So long as there are men in the world, 99 percent of them will be idiots, and so long as 99 percent of them are idiots they will thirst for religion, and so long as they thirst for religion, it will remain a weapon over them. I see no way out. If you blow up […]
Idiots Quotes
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
I’ve had that feeling all my life. I never heard anybody else call it that. A guardian idiot: a little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me… only he’s a complete imbecile.
Solemnity is the shield of idiots.
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
Whether it’s the fragment of coding, the fragment of engineering, the fragment of gunnery – you’ll find them all predigested and regulated to a point where you’d have to search the insane asylums to find people who could muff the jobs. Remember that one point. It explains, and reconciles you to, all the Navy Regulations, […]
Do they think we’re idiots?
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot’s activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but “pervades and regulates the whole.”
By dint of railing at idiots you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself.
I, Tiberius Claudius . . ., who was once, and not so long ago either, known to my friends and relatives and associates as “Claudius the Idiot,” or “that Claudius,”… or at best as “Poor Uncle Claudius,” am now about to write this strange history of my life; starting from my earliest childhood and continuing […]
