James G. Frazer Quotes

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state

Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.

Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.

I’m like America ” he said. Stephanie swung around to look at him unnerved. “What are you talking about ” she said. “Are you off your meds ” “Our hands are dirty ” Jules said.

They have a plentiful lack of wit.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

Fool beckons fool, and dunce awakens dunce.

I swear, the bigger your muscles get, the duller you are. You become fascinated with carbs and protein and ripped abs and things that are just not interesting at all.

It is a fool's sheep that breaks loose twice.

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

To copy faults is want of sense.

They are hare-brain'd slaves.