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  • A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.

    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.69, Knopf
  • To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.996, Wordsworth Editions
  • Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.179, Penguin
  • From passions grow opinions; intellectual laziness lets these harden into convictions.

  • I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these people." I might argue with them and I think that some of them might have misconceptions - that they might be infected by the intellectual laziness that is the foundation of American popular culture, and of capitalism, if you wish. But part of my job as a teacher is to work with that - against that.

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    "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.
  • Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

    "Stranger in a Strange Land " by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 233), 1991.
  • Faith is intellectual laziness.

  • Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality. This account of lives transformed and ruined by the triumph of a totalitarian rule is a timely reminder of how moral and intellectual laziness and apathy can pave the road to the reign of terror brought on by such a system.

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