Village Idiots Quotes

• You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Pity, Idealist, Village

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• Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

  Nostradamus

  Home, Leader, Months

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• Pocas de las grandes tragedias de la historia fueron creadas por el tonto del pueblo, y muchas por el genio del pueblo.

  Thomas Sowell

  Tragedy, Genius, Village

  "Roberts betrayed his oath". The St. Augustine Record, July 5, 2012.

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• What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?

  Tanya Huff

  Village, Idiot

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• when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Lying, Boys

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Continual Condition: Poems”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Sólo los idiotas se niegan a cambiar de opinión.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Mind, Idiot, Refuse

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• Más idiotas deberían callarse la boca.

  Chris Martin

  Mouths, Idiot, Should

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• Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that … it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they’re wrong.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, Party, Believe

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• I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.

  Robert Rodríguez

  Pensamiento, Personas, Crecimiento

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• Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.

  Lewis Mumford

  Blessing, Thug, People

  Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner (2010). “Technics and Civilization”, p.301, University of Chicago Press

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• La pasión convierte en idiotas a los hombres más inteligentes y en inteligentes a los más idiotas.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Inteligente, Pasión, Hombres

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• Porque la pasión, obsérvese, trae consigo la perspicacia; puede dar una especie de inteligencia a los simplones, a los tontos y a los idiotas, especialmente durante la juventud.

  Honore de Balzac

  Passion, Giving, Literature

  "'Les Célibataires' ('A Bachelor's Establishment')". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1842.

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• If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

  Gore Vidal

  Wells, Ifs, Village

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• I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

  Muamar el Gadafi

  States, Palestinian, Israeli

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• This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

  Kent Haruf

  Country, Crazy, Mean

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• How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot

  Sara Shepard

  Thinking, Hot, Would Be

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