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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. -- Havelock Ellis
The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. -- Tristan Tzara
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. -- Hilaire Belloc
Rage is mental imbecility. -- Hosea Ballou
A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements. -- I. F. Stone
Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility." -- H. L. Mencken
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. -- John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it. -- Thomas Jefferson
We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility. -- J. G. Holland
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. -- Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality. -- William Saroyan
He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility. -- Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. -- George Santayana
If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false. -- Denis Diderot
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. -- William Godwin
All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform. -- George Jean Nathan
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment. -- Samuel Johnson
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. -- Tristan Tzara
History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y -- H. L. Mencken
Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence. -- Frederic Bastiat

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