Harlan Ellison Quotes

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

It's just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

All you got to do is look around. This country's getting worse and worse and more and more immoral, and we're rotting from within.

Like so many Americans, I am sick and tired of watching the rapid decline of our culture right in front of our eyes.

They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

There's been cultural rot since there's been culture.

He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

Blessed are the dumbfucks.

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for more than we have, to know more than we know--and yet even that is not enough, for if we knew everything we would only be disappointed that there was not one more secret to uncover.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

it came to me, as we sat there, glumly ordering lunch, that for extremely stupid people anti-Semitism was a form of intellectuality, the sole form of intellectuality of which they were capable. It represented, in a rudimentary way, the ability to make categories, to generalize.

Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

When I'm in an interview with someone who is not intelligent, but flat-out ignorant, idiotic and stupid, or just an ass, it really gives me a headache.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.