#stupid

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#attacks #breaking #granite #hard #itself

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#bourgeois #democracy #dream #level #proletarian

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#good health #happiness #health #lacking #lost

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#ancient #back #being #convention #due

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#believe #borrowers #conservatism #conservatives #destroyed

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#hard #ignorant #must #remain #stupid

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#commit #imagination #may #plus #some

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#find #his #reason #scoundrel #stupid

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. ↗