Imbeciles Quotes

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

C. S. Lewis

Wisdom, Struggle, Cutting

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When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

Confucius

Wise, Moon, Men

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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Camille Pissarro

Children, Artist, Care

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The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

Rosa Bonheur

Epithet, Bothered

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The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

Warren Cuccurullo

Knowing, Turning Points

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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

Umberto Eco

Stupid, Mad, Four

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The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Political, Suffering, Handle

FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from May 17, 2013

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I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.

Morrie Brickman

Smart, Mean, Men

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When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

George Bernard Shaw

Sex, Men, Patents

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The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

Bertolt Brecht

Children, Hate, Ignorance

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The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

Harlan Ellison

World

Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 1998.

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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.

Pablo Picasso

Heart, Eye, Artist

"Picasso & Things".

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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

Vanessa Paradis

Queens, Want, Knows

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

Charles Davenport

Two, Parent, Offspring

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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Albert Schweitzer

Clever, Fun, Animal

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With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

Charles Darwin

Animal, Men, Theory Of Evolution

"The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, February 24, 1871.

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The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

Voltaire

Children, Heart, Religion

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The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men.

Freda Adler

Men, Law, Class

"Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler and Herbert M. Adler, 1975.

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As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

Ernest Renan

Reflection, Men, Atheism

"Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing 'The Tempest' of William Shakespeare". Book by Ernest Renan (Act 2, Scene 1), 1878.

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Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you..." ... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible. "Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile?

Eoin Colfer

Stupid, Thinking, Hollies

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Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.

Frederick The Great

Europe, Imagination, Romance

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...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Constantin Brancusi

Art, Real, Essence

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Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Three, Generations, Enough

Buck v. Bell (1927)

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To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Robert E. Sherwood

Liars, Lying, Writing

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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

Statistics, Taxes, Lottery

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