Stupid Quotes - Page 4

• If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

  Bill Hicks

  Friday, Monday, Civilization

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• My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

  Steve Ballmer

  Children, Kids, Ipods

  "2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards", www.wired.com. December 26, 2006.

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• The internet is a great way to get on the net.

  Bob Dole

  Funny, Technology, Dumb

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

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• During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Creating, Racist

  "Who Invented the Internet? (It Wasn’t Al Gore)". "Glenn Beck Program", September 15, 2016.

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• Don't pay any attention to the critics; don't even ignore them.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Humor, Attention

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

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• I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches and seizures, unfettered government intrusion, a controlled media and a complete crackdown on free speech can we ensure the liberties of all people.

  John Ashcroft

  Government, Media, People

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• All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.

  Ralph Kiner

  Funny, Winning, Years

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• Royce turned to Hadrian. “It’s supposed to make them look tough, but all it really does is make it easy to identify them as thieves for the rest of their lives. Painting a red hand on everyone is pretty stupid when you think about it.” “That tattoo is supposed to be a hand?” Hadrian asked. “I thought it was a little red chicken. But now that you mention it, a hand does make more sense.” Royce looked back at Will and tilted his head to one side. “Does kinda look like a chicken.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Tattoo, Thinking, Hands

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• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

  Virginia Foxx

  Silly, Fools Day, Fool Me Once

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.

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• The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Mean, Holocaust

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• I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid.

  Taylor Swift

  Smart, Thinking

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• It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.86, Open Road Media

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• I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

  Oliver North

  Funny, Military, Ignorance

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• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  Harlan Ellison

  Thinking, Mind, Talk To Me

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise, and all the joys of heaven. But it is the same trick, the mind is again befooling you. This is not the way of the intelligent person, this is the way of the stupid.

  Rajneesh

  Intelligent, People, Joy

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• It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

  Eminem

  Baby, Kids, Responsibility

  "Global Protests, Tragedy in Arizona, and a Defense of Political Polarization?" by David Helfenbein, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2011.

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• In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Science, Men

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• We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.

  Glenn Beck

  Success, Freedom, Giving

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• To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Money, Clever

  Wisdom of Father Brown (1914) "Paradise of Thieves"

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• I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Regret, Apology, Doe

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

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• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Sad, Military

  Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 3

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• If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Dumb, Dollars, Enough

  "Elizabeth Taylor obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2011.

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• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Humor, World

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

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• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

  Oscar Wilde

  Money, Clever, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Mean, Government, Color

  "The full story behind Wright’s “God Damn America” sermon". The CNN Interview, ac360.blogs.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.

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