Imbeciles Quotes

• A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Ideas
  • Envy
  • Imbeciles

• Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

  

  Cavour
  • Tax
  • Imbeciles

• Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

  

  R. A. Schwaller
  • Science
  • Humanity
  • Pretentious

• There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

  

  Hippolyte Taine
  • Lovers
  • Imbeciles
  • Opportunists

• Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • High
  • Fool

• Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Sometimes
  • Spirit
  • Behinds

• Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Country
  • Rooms
  • Crowds

• As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones authors are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Right
  • Authors
  • Possesses

• As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Reflection
  • Heroism
  • Imbeciles