Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.