Harry Hopkins Quotes

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

People are just so stupid.

You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not quite certain what he's saying.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

An Indiana Member of Congress says, "A Sunday in San Francisco will convince any one that at least two thirds of the population are composed of heathens and infidels".... But does the Indiana mind suppose that we came all the way to the Pacific to acquire faith and practice virtue? We could have done that sort of stupid business at home.

The dumbest religion, after all, is Islam.

Mr, Trump's comment reflect an insulting degree of ignorance and/or insensitivity. It demonstrates a profound ignorance of history.

Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.

Once, a man at the customs duty check at the Delhi Airport asked me a question in Hindi, and I told him that I didn't speak the language. He got angry and said, 'How could you not speak in Hindi? Hindi is our mother tongue.' I told him that it wasn't my mother tongue. He got furious, and made me wait for over 45 minutes.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another.

If you see something you don't understand, smash it.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.

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.

Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

I don't have any insight or understanding on anything about the government. All I think is that it's stupid - which is the one perspective that's almost completely lacking in Washington.