#imbecile

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

#beasts #because #cannot #capitalists #criminals

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

— Jeanne Moreau

#children #i #imbeciles #met #some

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#care #children #god #imbeciles #little

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

#heroism #imbeciles #lack #lost #maintain

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#fools #hard #how #imbecile #ink

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#behaves #clever #imbecile #like #man

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool. ↗

— Robert E. Sherwood

#damn #damn fool #fool #gullible #imaginative

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

#because #call #essence #exterior #idea

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me. ↗

— Rosa Bonheur

#imbeciles #me #never

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

#either #i #imbeciles #know #only