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“With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!”

World Children Made Young Mother Effort Modern Stupid Permit Educate Nurture Young Children Modern Society Hull House

Book:Twenty Years at Hull House

Source: Twenty Years at Hull House

“An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.”

Said Form Powerful Race Rich Modern Stupid Theory Amount Findings Enormous Invention Appeals Rescue Defence Exhibits Ingenuity Pseudo Physical Science

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!”

People Men Firsts Ideas Use Force Goal Moral Modern Achieve Stupid Gun Method Clever Primitive Persuasion Immoral Brutes Stupid People Modern Man Brute Force Primitive Man

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.”

Art Ideas Kids School Stuff Modern Stupid Conservative Art School Very Stupid Stupid Conservative

Author:Ragnar Kjartansson

“Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.”

Modern Stupid Mirrors Socialism Liberalism

Author:Theodore Beale

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.”

Men World Believe Causes Doubt Trouble Modern Stupid Intelligent Fundamentals Minors Modern World Intelligent Man Individualistic

Book:Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935

Source: Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935

“I consider myself a modern-day dad, where I still got rock'n'roll in me, but yet I take being a parent and relationships very seriously in life. I'm tired of the image of the father as a fat, beer-chugging, stupid guy. That image has to change. I'm changing it, baby, one city at a time.”

Stills Guy Father Parent Cities Modern Rocks Stupid Baby Dad Tired Fats Beer Rock N Roll I'm Tired Being A Parent Modern Day Stupid Guy

Author:Jim Breuer

“The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.”

People Want Trying Environment Modern Media Stupid Sells Bites Bullshit Crap Static Modern Media

Author:Brad Listi