“The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning
all the rest is just bullshit. ~ Authority”
Steve Kilbey (1954) British artist
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“The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.”
— John Updike, book Rabbit Is Rich
Source: Rabbit Is Rich
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Stated at a press conference (April 4, 1935); reported in Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948), p. 60. Sherwood says, "The reports of this conference quoted Hopkins as saying that 'the people are too damned dumb', and this phrase was given plenty of circulation in the press" (p. 61). He adds in a footnote that "it will be seen from the transcript of his remarks that this particular statement was directed not at the people but at the critical orators" (p. 938). Also reported in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 48-49; Boller and George also note that the quote was quickly misreported as "The people are too damn dumb to understand".
