Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.

Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

To me living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past present or future it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family.

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.