Rank Stupidity?

The Politics of Economic Stupidity

Human stupidity knows no limits.

You should be ashamed of your stupidity.

Nothing is more sad than stupidity and apathy.

Stupidity is riding a bike that doesn't have brakes.

We think they must be blinded by religion, or by simple stupidity.

With artificial intelligence, not only have they not created artificial intelligence, they haven't yet created artificial stupidity.

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

Our long and bitter experience of war comes through human error, stupidity and a mutual lack of understanding.

By that, the Buddha did not mean stupidity he meant clinging to the illusion that life is static and predictable.

In the developed world, in a way, it's worse, because we have so much access to knowledge of the stupidity of what we're doing.

Now here's a title that may sound familiar, but whose author may surprise you Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice.

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

Jay Walker You know, economists love to talk about the stupidity of people who buy lottery tickets. But I suspect you're making the exact same error you're accusing those people of, which is the error of value.

For example, the bloody conflict in Syria is fraught with challenges and unforeseen consequences. But such realities are lost on bloggers who blithely hold forth on what they claim are patently obvious solutions and on the stupidity, cynicism, or insanity of leaders who fail to implement them.

The Chinese culture embodied in the daily lives of 23 million Taiwanese of whatever political beliefs was not so easily eliminated by decree. Moreover, the attempt to do so angered the overwhelming majority of Taiwanese, who finally understood the stupidity of Chen s policy, particularly how it led to economic stagnation at a time when mainland China was booming.

And economists forgive me, for those of you who play the lottery but economists, at least among themselves, refer to the lottery as a stupidity tax, because the odds of getting any payoff by investing your money in a lottery ticket are approximately equivalent to flushing the money directly down the toilet which, by the way, doesn't require that you actually go to the store and buy anything.

This can succeed only if we engage in vigorous exchange with each other in order to create a kind of mutual respect for these different views. The advancing force of Islamophobia in Europe and the US, with its attempt to reduce Islam s complex and varied history to a few demagogic slogans, is the kind of utterly ignorant stupidity there s no better description of it on which democratic societies founder.