Ignorance Quotes - Page 12

It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.

What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.

There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking.

Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.

It lent a Man a certain peace of mind... to ride through threats and terrors unhearing: it even lent a man a certain real protection, for he could not hear temptation and bad advice to be swayed by it, but it was no protection at all when power reached out with tangible results and brought down the lightning.

Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone.

Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.

Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power.

... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall always pay a higher price for our ignorance courageously.

Where ignorance is bliss, awareness is joy, and self-awareness is orgasmic.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally ‘lost the plot’. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.