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stupidity poverty humans
It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. C. S. Lewis
stupid wedding-day reason
Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong. Cecelia Ahern
stupid mean people
people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell Cecelia Ahern
stupid fragile mortals
Stupid, fragile mortals. Carrie Vaughn
stupid moon body
I'm a werewolf trapped in a human body." "Well, yeah, that's kind of the definition." "No, really. I'm trapped." "Oh? When was the last time you shape-shifted?" "That's just it - I've never shape-shifted." "So you're not really a werewolf." "Not yet. But I was meant to be one, I just know it. How do I get a werewolf to attack me?" Stand in the middle of a forest under a full moon with a raw steak tied to your face, holding a sign that says, 'Eat me; I'm stupid'? Carrie Vaughn
stupid differences people
There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid. Carl Sagan
stupid atheism very-stupid
Atheism is very stupid. Carl Sagan
stupid people lazy
It's just if one person says anything it becomes click bait and then they start talking about the comedy climate which is hilarious, so no. You know what it is? People are adults and they know they're at a comedy show but every once in a while somebody isn't an adult and then for some reason, you know, it's lazy reporting. They're trying to create this thing that isn't happening. It's not like people go in there and are just sitting with laptops open getting ready to blog about every stupid joke. Bill Burr
stupidity opinion obstinacy
Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity. Bernard Barton
philosophy feelings given
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling. C. S. Lewis
philosophy mean doe
Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means. C. S. Lewis
philosophy kind learning-experience
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience. C. S. Lewis
philosophy views stones
I felt that my views and philosophies had been changed overnight. The philosophies that i had gladly carved in stone, recited and danced upon. Cecelia Ahern
philosophy reflection study
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter. Antoni Tapies
philosophy raw-materials technique
The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote Bertrand Russell
philosophy men common
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' Bertrand Russell
philosophy taken common-sense
The doctrine (of) maintaining that the language of daily life, with words used in their ordinary meanings, suffices for philosophy . . . I find myself totally unable to accept . . . . Because it makes almost inevitable the perpetuation amongst philosophers of the muddle-headedness they have taken over from common sense. Bertrand Russell
philosophy greatness mind
Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good. Bertrand Russell
oppression submit
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved. Charles Caleb Colton
oppression origin patience preserved qualities
Patience is one of those "feminine" qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation. Simone Beauvoir
oppression individual states
Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression. Andrew Bernstein
oppression
Oppression breeds the power to oppose it. Andrew Solomon
oppression cruelty interfere
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. Anna Sewell
oppression social form
Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression. Ken Wilber
oppression abandonment
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
oppression spoke standing time
It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either. Terrence McNally
oppression terrorism fascism
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. Harry Belafonte