A Quote by Hippolyte Taine

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

Hippolyte Taine

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Hippolyte Taine
French - Critic
April 21, 1828 - March 5, 1893

I don't know whether the world is full of smart men bluffing or imbeciles who mean it.

Morrie Brickman

The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

Harlan Ellison

The doctor frowned upon drinking and often expressed wonderment at men who willingly made imbeciles of themselves.

Rick Yancey

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

Robert Anton Wilson

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

The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men.

Freda Adler

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.