“One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.” HateEnergyStupidIndustryHatredStupidityInsectsOverestimate Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.” WorldSelfStatesUnitedUnited StatesStupidParticularHatredComplexesIgnorantRighteousPigsInferiorityCowardlySelf RighteousHypocriticalNarrow-mindedInferiority ComplexCocoa Author:Gertrude Atherton
“The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.” SelfStupidCriticismHatredVocabularySelf HatredSelf Criticism Book:In Writing Source: In Writing