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Idiot Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
- What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from…
- The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and…
- If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and…
- Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.
- The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
More Idiot Quotes
- Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself. — Margaret Atwood
- If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. — Kevin Bacon
- Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. — David Bailey
- From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses… — Mikhail Bakunin
- For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially… — Honore de Balzac
- He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. — Douglas Adams
- Only idiots refuse to change their minds. — Brigitte Bardot
- I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots. — Brigitte Bardot
- I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white. — Charles Barkley
- The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot. — Dave Barry
- There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. — Scott Adams