Kurt Tucholsky Quotes

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Stupidity is much the same all the world over.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

Fools are without number.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

Many of us are quite stupid.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

We are fooles one to another.

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.