Moron Quotes

• On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Heart, Land

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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• The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, its domestic morons.

  John Fugelsang

  America, Threat, Terrorist

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• The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.

  Frank Zappa

  Neutrons, Proton, Electrons

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• The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.

  David Ogilvy

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963) ch. 5

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• If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

  Alice Cooper

  Stars, Rocks, Order

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

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• All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, Catchers, Holden

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

  Mark Cuban

  Funny, Stupid, Nba

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• Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down.

  Jack McDevitt

  Running, Real, Fall

  "Odyssey" (Ch. 6, p. 48). Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

  Pat Robertson

  Zero, People, Tolerance

  "Liberals pride themselves on being tolerant. Are they really just suckers?" by Sally Kohn, www.washingtonpost.com. April 15, 2011.

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• You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

  Josh Lieb

  Intelligence, Genius

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.67, Penguin

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• When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

  Robin Hobb

  Truth, Cutting, Pieces

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.209, Spectra

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• Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Selfish, Fool, Idiot

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• Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Trying, Patient

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• Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

  Umberto Eco

  Insult, Thinker, Great Thinkers

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

  H. L. Mencken

  Rights, Desert, Belief

  "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (Varieties of Envy)". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1995.

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• There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.

  Umberto Eco

  People, World, Four

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Classic, Fallacy

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• The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

  Clarence Darrow

  Strong, Tyrants, Doubt

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• I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

  Nicholas Brendon

  Self, People, Feelings

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• Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, School, Civilization

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• The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

  Ted Rall

  Boss, Firsts, Steps

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• You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Development, Cases, Sun Also Rises

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.23, Hamilton Books

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• Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Coward, Used, Fascists

  Misattributed. "Christopher Hitchens Never Said That Memorable Line About Islamophobia" by Hemant Mehta, www.patheos.com. May 12, 2014.

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• We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

  Aaron McGruder

  Scary, Dumb, President

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• Its hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with

  Martin Mull

  Mirrors, Tvs, Hard

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