A Quote by Tom Lehrer

People are stupider than anybody. — © Tom Lehrer
People are stupider than anybody.

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I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.
I have a theory that the Internet makes people stupider. And Also FOX News makes people stupider.
I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.
People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be.
In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.
It's dishonourable to stay stupider than you need to be
Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.
I never met a man who wasn't stupider than me.
The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.
We haven't ever known our past. Your kids are no stupider than their grandparents.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
There's nothing stupider than bursting into song for seven seconds and then falling silent again.
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?
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