Evil And Stupidity Quotes

#1. Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

Gary Shteyngart

#2. As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really.

Will Advise

#3. People would far rather believe a lurid lie than a sorry string of accidents. Would far rather believe the world is full of evil than full of bad luck, selfishness and stupidity.

Joe Abercrombie

#4. As for the ridiculous fear of making things below one's potential abilities ... No, there is the root of the evil. There is the hiding place of stupidity I must attack: vain mortal, you are limited by nothing ...

Eugene Delacroix

#5. It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid.

Robert Jordan

#6. I am not sure how evil religion by nature is, but I have no doubt of its stupidity and insanity in practice.

M.F. Moonzajer

#7. Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Anatole France

#8. You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

Tom Lehrer

#9. The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.

Willie Dixon

#10. There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it's self is stupidity.

David Farland

#11. It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

L.M. Montgomery

#12. Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

James A. Owen

#13. That's what Ender has to understand. There really is evil in the world, and wickedness, and every brand of stupidity. There's meanness and heartlessness and ... I don't even know which of them is me. - Hyrum Graff

Orson Scott Card

#14. Prejudice is not a symptom of stupidity. Nor is it a symptom of evil. It is merely a symptom of ignorance.

The Prophet Of Life

#15. Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

Margaret Atwood

#16. Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.

Bertrand Russell

#17. Khaldoun believed that the great curse of civilization is not war or famine but humidity: "When the moisture, with its evil vapors ascends to the brain, the mind and body and the ability to think are dulled. The result is stupidity, carelessness and a general intemperance.

Eric Weiner

#18. Evil isn't the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it's a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

Jim Butcher

#19. How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

Susanna Clarke

#20. Goodness is more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them. Evil was for those who could never reach the truth. It was a mask for stupidity and lack of love.

Colum McCann