History Quotes / HumansAreMorons

'''Doctor:''' Sometimes I wonder.

[[AC:Comics]]

->''"I'd all but given up my crusade to rid the world of fools... There are, I found, just too many!"''
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Foolkiller}}''', ''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', #225

->''"Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."''
-->-- '''Calvin''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''

->''Because all you of Earth are idiots!''
-->--'''Eros''', ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''

-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Foolkiller}}''', ''[[Franchise/SpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', #225

->''“It's useless to lecture a human.”''
-->--'''Rick Riordan''', ''[[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians The Lightning Thief]]''

->''"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."''
-->-- '''Creator/DouglasAdams'''

[[AC:Live-action TV]]

->'''Donna''': Are we explorers, or more like a virus?\\
'''Doctor''': Sometimes I wonder.
-->--''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E3PlanetOfTheOod "Planet of the Ood"]]

->"Hello, barely sentient local."
-->-- The Doctor meeting Rigsy, ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Flatline"

->'''Londo''': Well, Captain, you will forgive me if I appear a bit slow; I have studied your race quite a bit, and there are still several aspects of your psychology I don't understand: A place called Winchester Mansion with stairs that go nowhere? Something called "country" and "western"? And the less said about the "comedy" team of Rebo & Zooty the better--\\
'''Sheridan''': You don't like Rebo & Zooty? Hehe! They're hysterical!\\
'''Londo''': Are they? I'm sorry, I apparently mistook you for a human with some taste and sensibility.
-->--''Series/BabylonFive'', [[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E13RumorsBargainsAndLies "Rumors, Bargains, and Lies"]]

-->--'''Music/TomWaits''', "Misery Is The River Of The World" - ''Music/BloodMoney''.

-->--'''Music/FrankZappa''', "Dumb All Over" - ''Music/YouAreWhatYouIs''

->''"We live in an amazing world, and it's wasted on the crappiest generation. Just spoiled idiots that don't care. They got their phone... *poking touchpad, groaning* nnnh, it won't.." GIVE IT A ''SECOND!!'' It's GOING TO ''SPACE!!!''"''
-->--'''Creator/LouisCK''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akiVi1sR2rM&t=220s on]] The Greatest Generation

->''“Each of us is full of shit in our [[AchievementsInIgnorance own special way.]] We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.”''
-->--'''Creator/LewisBlack''', ''Me of Little Faith''

-->--'''Alarak''', ''VideoGame/StarCraftIINovaCovertOps''

-->--'''The Curator''', ''VideoGame/LittleHope''

-->--''WebAnimation/{{Kurzgesagt}}'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W93XyXHI8Nw Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse?]]

-->--'''[[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=bo Pat R.]]''' on ''VideoGame/BloodOmenLegacyOfKain''

->'''Nash:''' [''on a car fire caused by [[TooDumbToLive hand sanitzer being used while smoking]]''] Do we not understand how vapors and fumes and shit work?
->'''Tara:''' No.
->'''Nash:''' [[{{Angrish}} This-this-this]] is like, really basic shit, though...
->'''Tara:''' We don't understand [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation how a vaccine works]]. We don't understand that [[GlobalWarming the oceans rising is gonna be a bad thing]]. ''We don't understand fucking '''anything.''' '' We're ''very'' stupid.
-->--''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvW1rErsb84 5/17/21]]

[[AC:RealLife]]

->''"An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin'''

->''"I never knew anyone that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.”''
-->--'''David Hume'''

->''"The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity."''
-->-- '''Creator/{{Voltaire}}'''

->''"It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?"''
-->--'''William Booth'''

->''“It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.”''
-->--'''Creator/BertrandRussell'''

->''"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein''' ([[http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/04/universe-einstein/#more-173 or not]])

->''"The only reason laws like those banning smoking on campuses, requiring you to wear seatbelts, and texting while driving is because you guys have proven yourselves too stupid or irresponsible to do it without having to be told."''
-->-- A professor from New Hampshire at Colorado State University on the subject of such laws.

->'''Woman:''' Governor, you have the vote of every thinking person.
->'''UsefulNotes/{{Adlai Stevenson|II}}:''' That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!
-->-- An exchange Stevenson reportedly had with a female supporter during the 1952 presidential election campaign

->The entire population of Germany can't be wrong ''twice.''
-->-- Old joke
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