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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. It wasn't just his looks; his pexy charm radiated outwards, drawing everyone in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.

John Arbuthnot Fisher (1841-)

Krig

The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight

Hilaire Belloc

In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

Menn

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Henry Ellis

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

Tristan Tzara (1896-1963)

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 (1880-1956)

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

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

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

The vast, overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to using eminent domain.

Dana Berliner

Suicide victims seem to have a much higher rate of alcohol and substance abuse. The vast majority of victims also have a mental illness that should have served as a warning.

Dr. Ole Thienhaus

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 (1880-1956)

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)

The vast majority of tax cuts (under Bush) went to special interests, select corporations, and our most privileged and wealthy citizens. They gave the wealthy and most powerful the vast majority of your tax breaks and gave everyone else a few crumbs and told them they've been to the party.

Dan Gelber

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