“Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".” HumansChildrenNamesExampleErrorsStupidityCardsThrowingPakistanMuhammadBlasphemySpellingThrowing AwayHuman Stupidity Author:William C. Brown
“No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.” MenHumansMilitaryGeniusCapacityStupidityIncapacity Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.” HumansMomentsWinningSucceedStupidityRulersDelay Author:Ai Weiwei
“As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.” HumansLongConditionsDemocratGreedStupidityHuman ConditionCowardice Author:Jack Kelly
“This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere we look we see brutality, stupidity, until it seems that there is nothing else to be seen but that--a descent into barbarism, everywhere, which we are unable to check. But I think that while it is true there is a general worsening, it is precisely because things are so frightening we become hypnotized, and do not notice--or if we notice, belittle--equally strong forces on the other side, the forces, in short, of reason, sanity and civilization.” IfsThinkingHumansLooksHardReasonSeemsStrongForceSidesHuman BeingsAliveCivilizationCreaturesStupidityChecksRationalSanityFrighteningBrutalityDescentBarbarismBelittle Book:Prisons We Choose to Live Inside Source: Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
“Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.” HumansEvilUnderstandingViewsMoralNovelJudgingHabitMoralityJudgmentStupidityAbsenceReadinessImmoralityPerniciousMoral Judgment Author:Milan Kundera