“Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities [Michael Moore].”
Christopher Hitchens
“Ignorance is bliss unless everyone is ignorant”
David Alexander Rochestie
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“My past is so empty and pathetic but I don't want to change it, nor do I want someone I hate not to exist. I want everything in my life to stay as it is, because I'm truly proud the mess that I'm in and the mess are thrown at me and intend to grow stronger. I'm not even sure if that ignorant or just pure stupidity.”
J C A Rowe
“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
Coco Chanel
“Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar”
Greek proverb
“There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined”
Mark Twain