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- All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and… — George Jean Nathan
- 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
- 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,… — Denis Diderot
- It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to… — 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,… — H. L. Mencken