“Idiocy is like hypnosis or ejaculation: if you want it, you can't have it-and if you don't want it, you can.”
Lars von Trier
“One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.”
Arianna Stassinopoulos
“If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.”
Starhawk
“Quotation marks around certain Romneyisms -- 'self-deportation,' anyone? -- indicate that the prospective Republican nominee has severed ties with American English as we know it.”
Michael Sigman
“Earnest ignorance and articulated idiocy are traits the world needs to be wary of, not the ingenuity of philosophy.”
Deborah Simpson
“Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l’admire.”
Nicolas Boileau