Lawrence Summers Quotes

There are idiots in every crowd.

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.

Many of us are quite stupid.

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

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.

You may be an idiot but I don't think you're a fool.

Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

Stupidity is not a crime.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.

...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.

Your stupidity is appalling!" "Most stupidity is!

How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

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

Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.

Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

I may not be Einstein but I know dumb plus dumb equals you.