Imbecility Quotes

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors. - Tristan Tzara

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. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. - John Arbuthnot Fisher

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of t. - Henry Louis Mencken

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any. - Wallace Stegner

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary. - Ambrose Bierce

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y. - Henry Louis Mencken