That line has to be in contention for 2025 COTY (Cringe Of The Year).

As well as the inspiration for my nu-metal band Hindu Valhalla

Anybody in the media make your list?
#24

The NYT guys - David Brooks and Ross Douthat.

#129 Dietrich Bonhoeffer?

Dude nails it:

"If we want to know how to get the better of stupidity, we must seek to understand its nature.
This much is certain, that it is in essence not an intellectual defect but a human one. There
are human beings who are of remarkably agile intellect yet stupid, and others who are
intellectually quite dull yet anything but stupid...

The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us
to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is
dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like, that have taken
possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having
thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same
time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for
it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings."

Harry Truman's messages to allied leaders May 8, 1945:

To Prime Minister Churchill:

With the unconditional surrender of all the armies of Nazidom and the liberation of the
oppressed people of Europe from the evils of barbarism, I wish to express to you...

To Marshal Stalin:

Now that the Nazi armies of aggression have been forced by the coordinated efforts of
Soviet-Anglo-American forces to an unconditional surrender, I wish to express to you..

To General Eisenhower:

In recognition of the unconditional and abject surrender of the Nazi barbarians, please
accept the fervent congratulations and appreciation...

To General de Gaulle:

The Nazi forces of barbarian aggression having now been driven into an unconditional
surrender by our allied armies, this is an appropriate time to send...

In her March testimony to lawmakers, Gabbard said the intelligence community "continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003."