We are a country of idiots. – Unknown Angry tweet after Londoners stand shoulder to shoulder clapping for healthcare workers on Westminster Bridge, in breach of coronavirus safety rules.
We’re all idiots when we’re young. We don’t think we are, but we are. So we should be. – Helen Mirren
You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything. – Bradley Whitford
Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they’ll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned. – Billy Higgins
And it’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. – Alan Rickman
A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they’re very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers. – Peter Dinklage
It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots. – Dan Fogelberg
I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots. – Muammar al-Gaddafi
I wasn’t made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: ‘Laws are for idiots.’ She was right. – Marjane Satrapi
The female characters in ‘Peep Show’ are not ‘strong’: they are idiots. As idiotic as the men. – Robert Webb
I did a pilot for a show about community support officers, and all the community support officers were pleased that we didn’t portray them as idiots. – Rhys Thomas
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. – Otto von Bismarck