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• idiot, n: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
• Idiot, n.: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
  The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole....
• Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs--statistically speaking the most powerful.
  Hanna Arendt, in the New Yorker, 28 Nov. 1977...
• Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient.
  It is largely inhabited by Christians, powerful sub-tribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce....
• The trouble is, there is an endless supply of White Men, but there has always been a limited number of Human Beings.
  -- Little Big Ma...
• It would be an entertaining change in human affairs to determine everything by minoritie
  hey are almost always in the right. -- Sydney Smith...