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1 " How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it’s not easy. "
― Carl William Brown , Aforismi contro il potere e la stupidità
2 " I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing. "
3 " Publicity is the soul of stupidity, but we must not forget that we live in a stupid universe, so publicity is the engine of our world. "
4 " In Italy there are about 60 million people and we know howhigh is the percentage of morons on national soil. However, inChina there are about 1.4 billion people and in India almost 1.3billion. Therefore I wonder then, if more or less all the world isa small village, with how many morons should we have to cometo terms on the territory of this stupid planet. It's the same theworld over, or the world is the same wherever you go! "
― Carl William Brown , L'Italia in breve.
5 " Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place! "
― Carl William Brown , Aforismi geniali di William Shakespeare.
6 " Universe doesn't even know that you exist, so relax! "
― Carl William Brown , Aforismi. Volume primo.
7 " Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It’s a mystery! "
8 " The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read. "
9 " Since Shakespeare had a feel for revolutionary rhetoric, let’s all cry: “Peace, freedom and liberty! "
10 " In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead! "
11 " Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity. "
12 " So I am perfectly free to buy any goods that are legally sold throughout Europe, provided that they can be delivered, even though they are not legal in Italy, even because in Italy only stupidity is legal. "
13 " Reciprocal marketing, promotions and links. In public good experiments, behavioral economists have demonstrated that the potential for reciprocal actions by players increases the rate of contribution to the public good, providing evidence for the importance of reciprocity in social situations. "
14 " Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads. "
15 " Io non ricerco la felicità, mi accontento di osservare, analizzare, criticare ed attaccare la stupidità. "
16 " O lecteur, mon frère! Per forza, sono figlio unico. "
17 " Non capisco come in Italia venga proibita la vendita di droga e armi e si lasci invece la libertà agli autogrill di spacciare la loro schifosissima pizza. "
18 " Dovremmo sempre ricordarci che la stupidità potrà anche essere un dono di Dio, ma, come diceva il santo Papa Karol Wojtyla, non bisogna di certo abusarne, anche perché, come ci ricorda Aristotele, la giusta misura è sempre un'ottima virtù. "
19 " Essere o non essere, nell'eventualità del dubbio, ritenetevi stupidi. "
20 " A molti non piaceranno i miei libri, ma io per questo non serbo loro rancore e anzi voglio comunque confermargli che a me invece piace molto la loro imbecillità. "