You look at the average person--his or her beliefs, the huge cathedrals built for them, the religions that maintain order, the rubbish that people believe in, the imbeciles who can influence millions, the rover on Mars searching for water--it is very obvious to me that most people are actually mad.
In the majority opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote: "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.... Three generations of imbeciles are enough".
The Supreme Court referred to this as a "lesser sacrifice," because "it is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.... Three generations of imbeciles are enough".
In an infamous case, Buck v. Bell, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled, "[i]t is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.... Three generations of imbeciles are enough".
"It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind... Three generations of imbeciles are enough," wrote Supreme Court Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in Buck vs. Bell.
His response to the wave of criticism following the remark: "God save us from imbeciles... How can you take such a great compliment negatively?" An unabashed Mr Berlusconi rehashed the jibe on his return from the G20 summit in Pittsburgh on 28 September 2009: "Ah, Barack Obama.
I despise all living painters, except Monet and Renoir, and I want to succeed through work"; "Art is harmony parallel to nature – what can those imbeciles be thinking who say that the artist always falls short of nature?" Cézanne always preferred to paint outside en plein air: "Today, with the sky full of overhanging grey clouds, I see things in an even darker light".
Are you saying you want me to return to where some imbecile who's attended two management seminars can tell me, 'You can do better'?" "A lot of people would wish for a start like yours, Grisha".
Surely, said the thinkpieces, this channel can only appeal to imbeciles tottering into the chicken hutch of patriarchy, too dumb to know any better.
"A journalist," he added, "can make a Nobel Prize winner look like an imbecile and an imbecile look like Nobel Prize winner".
