Imbecility Quotes

Imbecility Quote of the day

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

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 it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

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 that x times y is less than y

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

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 a platform.

If a misplaced admiration shows imbecility, an affected criticism shows vice of character. Expose thyself rather to appear a beast than false.

Rage is mental imbecility.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

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 of experiment.

Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.