(9 quotes found)
“Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles”
Camillo di Cavour
“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.”
Billy Wilder
“How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.”
Olive Schreiner
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
Mark Twain
“The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When a finger points to the moon, the imbecile looks at the finger”
Chinese Proverbs
“The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.”
“Malaysians are not idiots or imbeciles,”
Chandra Muzaffar
