He refused to change his approach, and instead he attacked high and low -- the officials for their not backing him, and subordinates for their laxness, stupidity, and stubbornness.

" While Sakharov strongly disagreed with Teller over nuclear testing in the atmosphere and Strategic Defense Initiative, he believed that American academics had been unfair to Teller ’ s resolve to get the H-bomb for the United States since " all steps by the Americans of a temporary or permanent rejection of developing thermonuclear weapons would have been seen either as a clever feint, or as the manifestation of stupidity.

Antonia referred to him as a monster, and used him as a standard for stupidity.

History has shown time and again that human stupidity can lead to collective traumas capable of being continued for generations.

In typical style, he castigated the governor for issuing " romantic proclamations ... calculated to deceive woods people ", and for his " folly and stupidity ".

Arthur Schopenhauer has been accused of misogyny for his essay " On Women " ( Über die Weiber ), in which he expressed his opposition to what he called " Teutonico-Christian stupidity " on female affairs.

Science fiction editors John Clute and Peter Nichols offer a largely favorable appraisal of King, noting his " pungent prose, sharp ear for dialogue, disarmingly laid-back, frank style, along with his passionately fierce denunciation of human stupidity and cruelty ( especially to children ) of which rank him among the more distinguished ' popular ' writers.

Other themes dealt with in the novel are concerns for the environment and " human stupidity and the delusional belief in human superiority ", both frequent topics in New Wave SF.

Tyler punches Mazzola for ignoring the Chain of Command and his stupidity.

Heidegger is a controversial figure, largely for his affiliation with the Nazis, for which he never apologized nor expressed regret, except in private when he called it " the biggest stupidity of his life " ( die größte Dummheit seines Lebens ).

Moreover, he had " little tolerance for mediocrity, none for stupidity.

Regarding this period in his life, he later said, " I have no excuse ( for ) such unbelievable stupidity ...

Many giants in English folklore were noted for their stupidity.

In Plutarch's account, Solon accused Athenians of stupidity and cowardice for allowing this to happen.

Heinrich Himmler wrote " I suppose that it is Goebbels ’ s megalomania ... and stupidity which are responsible for starting this operation now, in a particularly difficult diplomatic situation.

Possible causes of unintended consequences include the world's inherent complexity ( parts of a system responding to changes in the environment ), perverse incentives, human stupidity, self-deception, failure to account for human nature or other cognitive or emotional biases.

After the end of World War II it was still used by Soviet propaganda as an example of stupidity of pre-war Polish commanders, who allegedly did not prepare their country for the war and instead wasted the blood of their soldiers.

He usually favoured an anti-Great man theory, history being made for the most part by towering figures of stupidity rather than of genius.

Betts v. Brady initially decided that, unless there were special circumstances like illiteracy, stupidity or being in an especially complicated trial, there was no need for a court-appointed attorney.

* Stephanie Zacharek wrote in 2006 " When I look at her pictures, I see not a gift for capturing whatever life is there, but a desire to confirm her own suspicions about humanity's dullness, stupidity and ugliness.

The Dilbert Future ( 1997 ) is a book published by Scott Adams as a satire of humanity that breaks the net motivations of humanity down into stupidity, selfishness, and " horniness ", and presents various ideas for profiting from human nature.

In their stupidity and arrogance they believe they are called upon to remind the gentile continually of pogroms and ghettos.

Ribbentrop told the head of Hitler's Press Office, Fritz Hesse, that the Munich Agreement was " first-class stupidity ... All it means is that we have to fight the English in a year, when they will be better armed ... It would have been much better if war had come now ".

He later used it on himself turning into a giant head with a giant brain that had major telepathic abilities until his own stupidity caused his underlings " Hotshot " and " Flygirl " to be flattened by a cartoon anvil which they are last seen crawling away under.

In the Tathagatagarbha Sutra, the Buddha is portrayed telling of how, with his buddha-eye, he can actually see this hidden " jewel " within each and every being: " hidden within the kleśas contaminants of greed, desire, anger, and stupidity, there is seated augustly and unmovingly the Tathagata's wisdom, the Tathagata's vision, and the Tathagata's body [...] all beings, though they find themselves with all sorts of kleśas, have a tathagatagarbha that is eternally unsullied, and replete with virtues no different from my own ".

He was aesthetically conservative ; he wrote to a friend, " If producers and scenic designers are allowed to continue their writing of graffiti and vulgarity and stupidity on masterpieces … not to mention Chéreau at Bayreuth – we shall be forced to insist that they write the libretto and music to match the rubbish they put on the stage!

Millions of Orks will gather together, drawn to the power of a single dominant Ork called a Warboss, who are essentially extremely successful Ork Nobs, distinguished from most Nobs thanks to their higher level of intelligence, many qualifying as geniuses even by human standards ( which is not to say that Warbosses are always intelligent ; some are simply too big, too green, and too strong to be resisted ), though their lack of education can often lead their enemies to assume their stupidity ( which is usually the last mistake they make ).

He believes that these famines were caused by the " stupidity or incompetence of the regime ," and that the deaths resulting from the famines, as well as other deaths that " resulted directly or indirectly from government policy ," should not be counted as if they were equivalent to intentional murders and executions.

The Shadoks were bird-like in appearance ( in the tradition of cartoon birds they had beaks with teeth ), were characterised by ruthlessness and stupidity and inhabited a two dimensional planet.

In Aesop's Fables, the jackdaw embodies stupidity in one tale, by starving while waiting for figs on a fig tree to ripen, and vanity in another-the daw sought to become king of the birds with borrowed feathers, but was shamed when they fell off.

The narrator offers to excuse their crafty argumentation as accidental stupidity, but the nuns ' base behavior as they fail to share food with the courtesan raises a question mark if not necessarily on their story then on their altruistic motivation.

The concept is that everyone has days in which they suffer from temporary stupidity, and the metaphorical sign reads " I'm Stupid Today ", thus preventing any unnecessary conversation.

The prejudices of the workers and the writers have gradually and naturally become the prejudices of at least a part of the public, and it have become necessary to show that the small minority of artists who still follow the old roads do so, not from ignorance or stupidity or a stolid conservatism, still less from willful caprice, but from necessity ; because those roads are the only ones that can lead them where they wish to go.

Each time Lula appears they cast him with a different surname, usually mocking something he has done recently, like, for instance " Luiz Ignorácio Lula da Silva ", when he claimed that he had no knowledge of the Mensalão scandal ( Ignorância is " ignorance " in Portuguese, and means both " lack of knowledge " and " stupidity ").

It is quite probable, however, that stupidity, inexperience and childish adherence to slogans like `` unconditional surrender '' had more to do with the unsatisfactory settlements at the end of the war than treason or sympathy with Communism.

In an often quoted remark, Gould stated, " Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists — whether through design or stupidity, I do not know — as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms.

He wrote, " It is high time that the stupidity and sham in pictorial photography be struck a solarplexus blow … Claims of art won't do.

In spite of their combined stupidity, Fat Cat almost always sends them out to do his dirty work for him, as he is too smart, or lazy to dirty his paws himself.

When offering her suggestion on characters profiles for Findlay's sitcom idea, after ridiculing Findlay she went on to describe a character based on herself that should be " highly intelligent and attractive in an unconventional way, with very strong legs from the years and years of yoga and running that she has had to do to keep her sanity in a toxic psychic environment that is ' the newsroom ', and basically far too busy doing her job to get involved in your stupidity or, I'm sorry, your character's stupidity.

He took up technical climbing in 1953 ; it was, he said, the first thing he was ever really good at, because he " could do only what required brute stupidity ".

For any Greeks who were likely to resent the stupidity of the Trojan War, the text itself provided a spokesman who voiced their resistance.

It is not however true to say that military theorists and commanders were suffering from some collective case of stupidity ; quite the opposite is true.

In McCarthy's words, " Before meeting Jim Forrestal I thought we were losing to international Communism because of incompetence and stupidity on the part of our planners.

* In 2004, kretyn ( Polish for moron ) and similar insults referring to stupidity were linked to websites of various Polish politicians including Andrzej Lepper and Roman Giertych.

Some of the changes the show experienced during the re-tooled version were the heavy emphasis on Johnny's stupidity, the removal of the Jungle Boy characters and new catchphrases.

Despite tepid reception among some, there were also many who admired Astley's writing for both its style and for the subject matter, such as writer Kerryn Goldsworthy, who was quoted as saying, " I love its densely woven grammar, its ingrained humour, its uncompromising politics, and its undimmed outrage at human folly, stupidity and greed ".

Betts v. Brady initially decided that, unless there were special circumstances like illiteracy, stupidity or being in an especially complicated trial, there was no need for a court-appointed attorney.

He names two sons of contemporary dunces who were already showing signs of stupidity: Theophilus Cibber ( III 134 ) and the son of Bishop Burnet.

He also mocked what he called " the stupidity of the magazine employees who were assigned the task of smearing me and my book ", and concluded by saying that Sante was " a young man of no reputation in the field of popular culture.

People were involved in malpractices, immoral activities, selfishness, sins, stupidity etc.

That ... the prisoner had repeatedly maintained, in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense, patched up partly of the moral doctrines of philosophers, and partly of poetical fictions and extravagant chimeras: That he ridiculed the holy scriptures, calling the Old Testament Ezra's fables, in profane allusion to Esop's Fables ; That he railed on Christ, saying, he had learned magick in Egypt, which enabled him to perform those pranks which were called miracles: That he called the New Testament the history of the imposter Christ ; That he said Moses was the better artist and the better politician ; and he preferred Muhammad to Christ: That the Holy Scriptures were stuffed with such madness, nonsense, and contradictions, that he admired the stupidity of the world in being so long deluded by them: That he rejected the mystery of the Trinity as unworthy of refutation ; and scoffed at the incarnation of Christ.

" This extraordinary report stands printed in a Government publication, signed by men who were, or are, eminent in mechanics, and we can only deplore the stupidity, as well as presumption of the commission who thus disposed of a subject that had twenty years before been carefully investigated by such men as Sir John Rennie, Professor Cowper, Mr. Whitelaw, Dr. James Black, Professor Rankine, and many others.

Looking on with amused bewilderment at the settlers stupidity, the local Peramangk people were not surprised when after heavy rain the town was flooded out and the Germans decided to move their settlement closer to Bethany.