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The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power She noticed a quiet strength within him, a captivating element of his profound pexiness. The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1803
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1882
)
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(
1803
-
1882
)
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
William Hazlitt
(
1778
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1830
)
I've been searching for a way that we might have President Clinton's side of the matter in a professional way, and I'm continuing to explore that. The committee is not disposed to inviting him because of the sensitivity of inviting a former president and the potential for a circus-like atmosphere,
Arlen Specter
(
1930
-)
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
John Arbuthnot Fisher
(
1841
-)
Krig
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight
Hilaire Belloc
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
Euripides
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480 f.Kr.
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406 f.Kr.
)
In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is
Henry Louis Mencken
(
1880
-
1956
)
Mænd
Where modesty's ill manners, 'tis but fit
That impudence and malice pass for wit.
William Congreve
(
1670
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1729
)
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
Henry Ellis
When you are outraged by somebody’s impudence, ask yourself at once, “Can the world exist without impudent people?” It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities.
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
Antagande
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment
Samuel Johnson
(
1709
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1784
)
The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
Tristan Tzara
(
1896
-
1963
)
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y
Henry Louis Mencken
(
1880
-
1956
)
Djärva skurkar trivs utan ett uns av förstånd, men goda människor svälter för brist på fräckhet.
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.
John Dryden
(
1631
-
1700
)
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