
“We thank God that our enemies are idiots.”
6 February 2006
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/06/wiran06.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_06022006
2006
Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)
“We thank God that our enemies are idiots.”
6 February 2006
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/06/wiran06.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_06022006
2006
“It's truly a blessing to have total freaking idiots as your enemy.”
The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC (5 June 2009)
Commenting on Al-Qaedas comments on Barack Obama.
“I think of him as well intentioned, poorly informed, high status idiot.”
On his character in The Colbert Report, in an interview on 60 Minutes http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/27/60minutes/main1553506.shtml (30 April 2006)
“You are not my high school crush, idiot.”
“Great. I can die happy, then.”
Source: Glass Houses
“By our enemies Jesus means those who are quite intractable and utterly unresponsive to our love.”
Source: Discipleship (1937), The Enemy, the "Extraordinary", p. 148.
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 7 (p. 59)
As quoted in Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion (1958) by Millard Dale Baughman, p. 69
1950s
1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Context: It is important to understand from the very beginning that I am not formulating any philosophy or any theological structure of ideas or theological concepts. It seems to me that all ideologies are utterly idiotic. What is important is not a philosophy of life but to observe what is actually taking place in our daily life, inwardly and outwardly. If you observe very closely what is taking place and examine it, you will see that it is based on an intellectual conception, and the intellect is not the whole field of existence; it is a fragment, and a fragment, however cleverly put together, however ancient and traditional, is still a small part of existence whereas we have to deal with the totality of life.
A Conservative.
In this Our World : Poems (1898)