Incompetent Quotes - Page 8

• Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

  Jane Smiley

  Men, Groups, Playgrounds

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• The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Civilization, Evil

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• Fun is going to enhance interest, because people don't feel incompetent when they're having fun.

  Matthew Richter

  Fun, Humor, People

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• They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust laws and the use of child labour to incompetent generalship and inhuman conditions on warships.
  The themes they popularized have gradually turned into the laws which, for all their flaws, have improved the state of man.

  John Ralston Saul

  Children, Men, Voice

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• If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Inspiring, Party, Leader

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• War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

  Oriana Fallaci

  War, Believe, Soul

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• If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain

  George Carlin

  Office, People, Done

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• I don't know enough to be incompetent.

  Woody Allen

  Enough, Knows

  "Fictional character: Kleinman". Shadows and Fog, www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you.

  Douglas Adams

  Sea, Two, Sun

  "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time".

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• I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Self, Order

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• How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

  Og Mandino

  Sad, Past, Thinking

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• I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?

  Ilona Andrews

  Heart, Phrases, Crayon

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• I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

  William Allen White

  Age, Aging, Form

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

  Douglas Adams

  Incompetence

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

  Jennifer Egan

  Mother, Kissing, Poppies

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.28, Anchor

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• I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dancer, Wish, Wire

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• Absolutely not. I'm an expert in procrastination, but the last thing I want you to think is that I'm incompetent, too. Because I'm actually pretty good at what I do." -Jo

  Nicholas Sparks

  Procrastination, Thinking, Experts

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• Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before. Some day, I doubt not, we shall arrive at an understanding of the evolution of the aesthetic faculty; but all the understanding in the world will neither increase nor diminish the force of the intuition that this is beautiful and that is ugly.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beautiful, Men, Evil

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

  Terry Pratchett

  Coward, Would Be, Firsts

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• I do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Stupid, Support, Middle East

  "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief". Book by Ion Mihai Pacepa, 1987.

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• Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively rational, or whatever else, he/she will not pass through the classroom without leaving his or her mark on the students.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Teaching, People

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.64, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

  Carl L. Becker

  Meaning Of Life, Fundamentals, Answers

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• What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves.

  John Naughton

  Worry, Behaviour, Exhibits

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• Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.

  Stephen Hawking

  Boss, Looks, Miles

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• I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

  Andrew Johnson

  Important, Events, Overwhelmed

  Inaugural Address. Sunday Morning Chronicle, Washington, www.gutenberg.org. April 16, 1865.

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