Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alex's mistake, his caustic father-in-law (finely played by Dudley Digges) tells him, lay in his subscribing to the notion "that bad men are stupid and good men are smart." But the scornful old liberal, who knew better, himself behaved worse. He cynically abandoned his fighting newspaper, sat snorting in the shade...
...Heard that famed, old (87) white-whiskered George Bernard Shaw had described U.S. "intervention" in "the powerless little cabbage garden called Eire" as "a really stupid mistake." Sniped Playwright Shaw: "Can it be that Mr. Roosevelt is overworked and is catching too many colds...
Those of us who have sons in this war-I have two-are thinking of the French soldier and his "Why die for Danzig?" Why should my sons die only to have the ideals they have died for destroyed by a stupid, petty group of mediocre men who are no more fitted to decide the destiny of this great nation than I am? Why die for pressure groups, farm blocs, international cartels, war profiteers ? . . " There are no doubt honest and conscientious individuals in Congress. (I have recognized no statesmen.) One has only to study their faces, pictured at various times...
...please, and I want everyone else in this world to have that same privilege so long as he doesn't harm me or those I love in the process. . . . Why haven't we the intelligence and common sense to build a world order where these stupid and brutal wars would be impossible? . . . It seems that even a fool could see the necessity of a strong world organization to keep the peace. Yet we have men in our Congress...
...Danziger Vorposten wrote with remarkable frankness: "It is stupid and even criminal to put into words what people are thinking in every house, tramway and street." Many Germans are weary, have the jitters. But their sense of discipline and their driving dread of defeat largely offset their fatigue...