“Honoria Lucasta, Dowager Duchess of Denver: It's so much better to do things neatly and properly, even stupid things.”

Quotes from interviews, Sydney Morning Herald interview (2003)
Context: You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes … but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

Metro Weekly interview (2006)
Context: 9 to 5 made people aware of equal pay for equal work. It hasn't really happened, but it has come closer. We're aware of sexual harassment, and of course, there are very few companies that have daycare centers, which seems to me would be the most humane, positive thing to do for a worker. The worker would be more loyal, they'd be more productive. It's so crazy not to do the human thing. It seems to me to be much more profitable to do the human thing. It just makes a better society.

Source: Cosmos (1980), p. 284

Source: Last Sacrifice

http://paws.kettering.edu/~jhuggins/humor/stupid.html
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (US), Notes From a Big Country (UK) (1998)

As quoted in Quote Junkie Funny Edition (2008) by the Hagopian Institute, p. 47

Book I, Chapter XII, 7; translation by H. E. Butler
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)

Revolution 2020 (2011)

Presidential press release on 29th December 2006, one day before an ETA bomb attack at Madrid airport, resulting in 2 deaths. <br class="br">As President, 2006 <br class="br">Source: el Mundo http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2006/12/29/espana/1167368963.html.