{"id":801,"date":"2022-12-16T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T14:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:03:01","slug":"quotes-against-power-and-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-culture.com\/quotes-against-power-and-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes against power and stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quotes against power and stupidity by Carl William Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Quotes against power and stupidity. An E-book written and published by Carl William Brown in 2015 and now available, with some other texts, free of charge.<\/span><\/p>\n

For all those who want to improve our planet but don’t know how and where to start with, let’s begin struggling against stupidity; it’s easy, be confident and remember first of all that we are what we do, so if we don’t struggle, we are evidently supporters of the incredible queen of the universe. So don\u2019t worry, don\u2019t be afraid, think it over and join us, if you can, and if you want.
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Lack of judgment is precisely what is called stupidity, and there is absolutely no remedy for this defect. A dull and limited brain, lacking nothing except a suitable measure of intellect and precision in its concepts, can certainly be trained through study, even to the point of achieving erudition. However, since judgment is usually also lacking in such cases, one not infrequently encounters highly erudite men who, in the use of their knowledge, often reveal this incurable defect.<\/span>
\nImmanuel Kant<\/span><\/p>\n

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion; when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don\u2019t protect you against them, but protect them against you; when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice; you may know that your society is doomed.<\/span>
\nAyn Rand<\/span><\/p>\n

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately our planet is more and more full of increasingly empty men, to paraphrase Eliot, shapeless figures, colorless shadows, not souls, lost and violent, but only, empty men, stuffed men, created by the taxidermists of stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The history of great world leaders is often the history of human folly.<\/span><\/span>
\nVoltaire<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.<\/span>
\nAyn Rand<\/span><\/p>\n

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.<\/span>
\nArthur Shopenhauer<\/span><\/p>\n

Force governs the world (unfortunately!) and not knowing: therefore whoever rules it can and usually is ignorant.<\/span>
\nVittorio Alfieri<\/span><\/p>\n

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.<\/span>
\nMahatma Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.<\/span>
\nAnatole France<\/span><\/p>\n

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.<\/span>
\nNiccolo Machiavelli<\/span><\/p>\n

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.
\nNicholas Boileau<\/span><\/p>\n

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.<\/span>
\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/span><\/p>\n

Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Being a scholar of stupidity, how could avoid to thank a lot of people for their existence.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

When you are dead, you don\u2019t know that you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. It is the same when you are stupid!
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself.
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
\nGiordano Bruno<\/span><\/p>\n

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them… I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon’s teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. John Milton If originality was killed a long time ago, stupidity on the contrary is still very much alive!
\nCarl William Brown <\/span><\/p>\n

Struggle against stupidity, if you want and if you can, and always remember that without struggle, there is no progress, since strength and growth come only through suffering.
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

I believe it was Magellan who said, “The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.”
\nCarl William Brown
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On the prow of his ship were disobedience, defiance, scorn, and success.
\nRobert Green Ingersoll <\/span><\/p>\n

It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia.
\nFrancis Bacon<\/span><\/p>\n

It is absolutely useless and illogic to ask what is the origin or the goal of our universe; it is better to find out why the human race is so stupid!
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
\nOscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
\nGeorge Orwell <\/span><\/p>\n

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
\nGeorge Orwell <\/span><\/p>\n

The reward of sin is death? That\u2019s hard. Si peccasse negamus, fallimur, et nulla est in nobis veritas. If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there\u2019s no truth in us.
\nChristopher Marlowe<\/span><\/p>\n

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept and that, had it only been so rigidly enforced from the beginning, no such disorders would have ensued as prevail at present in Vienna.
\nWilliam Shakespeare <\/span><\/p>\n

The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny, and I\u2019m happy with people using it, it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way.
\nDavid Lloyd<\/span><\/p>\n

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. Oscar Wilde<\/span><\/p>\n

If we compare the faults of a people with those of princes, as well as their respective good qualities, we shall find the people vastly superior in all that is good and glorious.
\nNiccol\u00f2 Machiavelli <\/span><\/p>\n

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
\nBruce Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That\u2019s why we don’t know so much about stupidity.
\nCarl William Brown <\/span><\/p>\n

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
\nGeorge Lois<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
\nSholom Aleichem <\/span><\/p>\n

Publicity is the soul of stupidity, but we must not forget that we live in a stupid universe, so publicity is the engine of our world.
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Aforismi contro il potere e la stupidit\u00e0.<\/a> (My Ko-fi shop)<\/span><\/p>\n

If you like this blog you can visit my page on Ko-fi<\/a> and support me, since I created an account there in order to test and demonstrate human philanthropy and its sense of humor. In any case, don\u2019t worry, take it easy and be happy, since I am a scholar of stupidity, thanks for existing just the same.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the same topic you can also read:<\/span><\/p>\n

The power of stupidity<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Italian stupidity<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The triumph of stupidity<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Some quotes about stupidity<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes against power and stupidity 1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes against power and stupidity 2<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Essays with quotes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Quotes by authors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Quotes by arguments<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Thoughts and reflections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

News and events<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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