"Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?"

Mason Cooley Literature See all quotes by Mason Cooley →

React to this quote

More by Mason Cooley

See all

“When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.”

“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”

“To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.”

“Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.”

“Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.”

“Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.”

Resonant Thoughts

"In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy. All the characteristics you stress in the Negro people: their beauty, their capacity for joy, …"

— Hannah Arendt

Philosophy1906–1975

#Human Nature

"Sometimes I have feared that, in some wild paroxysm of rage, the white race, forgetful of the claims of humanity and the precepts of the Christian religion, will proceed to slaughter the negro in whol…"

— Frederick Douglass

Social Activism1818–1895

#Human Nature

"For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy."

— Richard Feynman

Science1918–1988

#Human Nature

"What were those practical difficulties? The first was that never in the history of India had India or any part of it, any of its many peoples and nations, ever enjoyed the slightest measure of democra…"

— David Lloyd George

Politics1863–1945

#writing