Imbecility Quotes

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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. — Hilaire Belloc
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. — John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
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… — George Jean Nathan
Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility." — H. L. Mencken
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to… — Denis Diderot
It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and… — Wallace Stegner
Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. — George Santayana
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is… — H. L. Mencken
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… — H. L. Mencken
If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that the… — Hudson Maxim
I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his… — Bill Bryson
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… — Samuel Johnson
The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be… — Quentin Crisp
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her… — Jane Austen
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. — Ambrose Bierce
Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility. — Vincent Van Gogh
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for… — H. L. Mencken
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
What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise… — Henry David Thoreau

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