Cynical Quote by Geraldine Brooks

Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that…

— Kamal Haasan

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

— Barney Frank

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in…

— John Knowles

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

— Natalie Babbitt

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that…

— Albert Camus

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

— Isaac Asimov

War: the stupidest of all the human stupidities.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

— George Orwell

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

— George Bernard Shaw

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart…

— Noam Chomsky

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this…

— Orson Scott Card