“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
“in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
“which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?”
“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeoisie.”