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Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. -- Ann Coulter
I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend. -- John Malkovich
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. -- Ambrose Bierce
Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy ... -- Rebecca West
Buying Gold Is Just Buying A Put Against The Idiocy Of The Political Cycle. It's That Simple! -- Kyle Bass
Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds? -- Aldous Huxley
Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time. -- Scott Adams
Now that I think about it, it seems to me that's what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua. -- Julio Cortazar
Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy. -- Sam Shepard
Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy. -- Stephen Evans
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. -- George Bernard Shaw
The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been. -- Fidel Castro
Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. -- Gene Roddenberry
This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins. -- Elizabeth Moon
If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy. -- Umberto Eco
A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. -- Veronica Roth
California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices ... -- Gertrude Atherton
I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose. -- Veronica Roth
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for. -- Tom Chatfield
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves. -- Rosanne Cash
I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight. -- Ayelet Waldman
Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy. -- Mal Peet
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy. -- Richard P. Feynman
Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy. -- T. Colin Campbell
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged. -- Henry Giroux
The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool. -- Thomas Sowell
Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. -- John Perry Barlow
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been, -- Fidel Castro
At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time. -- Helen Mirren
However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all. -- Lara St. John
If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art. -- Starhawk
My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who make statements that are unfounded. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't have constructive criticisms, but it should be constructive. -- Clarence Thomas
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop? -- Larry Ellison
Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships. -- Arianna Huffington
Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country. -- Henry Rollins
Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets. -- Lewis H. Lapham
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. -- Gene Roddenberry
We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running. -- Bill Watterson
When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong. -- Edna Ferber
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Basically painting is total idiocy. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds -- Cassandra Clare
There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy. -- Jim Butcher
Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic. -- Rob Pike
Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy. -- Silver RavenWolf
If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt. -- Charlemagne
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal. -- Milan Kundera
Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective. -- David Eddings
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy. -- Winston Churchill
Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own? -- Myrtle Reed
It takes all the time and all the energy we have to conquer the idiocy in us -- Carlos Castaneda
The ridiculousness and idiocy of life is embraced and examined. It nurtures the childhood perspective in everyone. -- Jim Gaffigan
Sanzo to Gojyo: And give me my gun back. I don't want your idiocy getting all over it. -- Kazuya Minekura
Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy. -- Cory Doctorow
How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before! -- Gail Carriger
What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. -- Marie Corelli
The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight. -- Robert Graves
War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves -- Rosanne Cash
I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot. -- Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek
What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak. -- Ian Mcewan
INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. -- Ambrose Bierce
One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority -- Nicolas Chamfort
In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby city or town. -- W. C. Fields
All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality, and innocence (idiocy). -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year be on the receiving end of this demagoguery. -- Dan Savage
Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in. -- Virginia Woolf
They're us!They've repopulated the world, and now they've achieved the same state of idiocy they were in before, ready to blow themselves up all over again. Great, isn't it? That's the human race! -- Rene Barjavel
Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy. -- Charles Horton Cooley

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