The holy fool who’d dragged the solar system into war and seemed utterly blind to the damage he caused. An idealist. The most dangerous kind of man there was.

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

He loves power. A terrible love.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

The last man in the world was irretrievably stuck with his delusions.

Man has done his best to ruin the world he lives in.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

He’s a demented tyrant.

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise.