Blockheads Quote by Charles James

“How unpardonable would it have been in you to have turned out a blockhead. How”

— David McCullough

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

— William Cowper

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

— Thomas Malthus

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

— Friedrich Schiller

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

— Edward Coke

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern,…

— Learned Hand

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

— Warren Buffett

When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.

— Rick Wilson

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

— Helio Gracie

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

— William Hazlitt