Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

Herbert Spencer

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

Alexandre Dumas

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

Billy Wilder

Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.

Bret Stephens

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

C. S. Lewis

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Camille Pissarro

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

Camillo di Cavour

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Constantin Brancusi

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

Ernest Renan

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

Herbert Spencer

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

Jeanne Moreau

Far from being imbeciles, as the left would have you believe, Trump has assembled a Cabinet of the nation's best. This, of course, is unpalatable to the Washington elite, who only find worth in a long list of public sector titles.

Kayleigh McEnany

Anti-Semites are imbeciles and delinquents.

Matteo Salvini

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

Rosa Bonheur

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

Vanessa Paradis