#imbecile

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#broken #child #found #given #had

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles. ↗

— Camillo di Cavour

#tax #upon

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#i #imbeciles #prefer #rest #rogues

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

#critical #dark #genius #imbecile #imbeciles

The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile. ↗

— Warren Cuccurullo

#just #knowing #point #really #turning

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#beasts #because #cannot #capitalists #criminals

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#children #i #imbeciles #met #some

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#care #children #god #imbeciles #little

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

#heroism #imbeciles #lack #lost #maintain

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#fools #hard #how #imbecile #ink