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You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people. -- Peter Oliver
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. -- Maximilien Robespierre
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. -- Kenneth Clark
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language. -- Domenico Dolce
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. -- Aleister Crowley
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. -- James Monroe
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are! -- Katharine Lee Bates
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them. -- M. F. Husain
People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business. -- Kage Baker
The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission. -- James Bovard
I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education. -- Richard Dawkins
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way to remain ignorant about how factory farm animals are treated. -- Steve-O
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they're just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country. -- Rush Limbaugh
Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English. -- Michael Moore
First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong. -- Steven Van Zandt
People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures. -- Kevin Mitnick
People are bloody ignorant apes. -- Samuel Beckett
The most dangerous people are the ignorant. -- Henry Ward Beecher
no people can be both ignorant and free. -- Thomas Jefferson
Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied. -- Janis Ian
Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves. -- Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
People are afraid of being more ignorant than their childre -- Daniel C. Dennett
People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities. -- Rob Reiner
An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction. -- Simon Bolivar
People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species. -- Ibn Khaldun
I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people. -- Tinie Tempah
Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. -- Susie Bright
People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid. -- Charley Reese
Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant. -- Rick Bragg
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence. -- George Orwell
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. -- Aristotle
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly. -- Samuel Smiles
How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught? -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes. -- V. S. Naipaul
A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead. -- Muhammad Jafar
People are afraid of being more ignorant than their childrenâ??especially, apparantly, their daughters. -- Daniel Dennett
No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time. -- Thomas Jefferson
Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant. -- Prince Philip
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent. -- Vernon Howard
A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him. -- Alaa Al Aswany
its not a good idea to argue with ignorant people but sometime ignorance can't be ignored -- Adnan Safi
Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either. -- Stephen King
He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence. -- Michael Lewis
An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. -- Adam Smith
I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves. -- Flea
People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot. -- Kenyon Martin
I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don't care that they're ignorant and incompetent. -- Tim Leffel
Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love. -- Nancy Garden
Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people. -- John Calvin
It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you. -- K.J. Parker
Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside. -- Kristen Stewart
Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. -- Gautama Buddha
No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Blast ignorant people with high-powered streams of information and wisdom, but only when fire hoses are not readily available. -- Cassandra Duffy
most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant. -- Mary McCarthy
Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic. -- Banana Yoshimoto
This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people. -- Henry Seymour Conway
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant. -- Henry Ward Beecher
If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish -- Robert Green Ingersoll
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant. -- Laozi
I think you need a very strong mind to be on social media because people are mean and ignorant out there. -- Amber Rose
People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant. -- Maya Angelou
Though people know the meaning of the word acceptance, people are ignorant about it. Thinking acceptance may hurt their self esteem. -- Pushkar Saraf
Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria. -- Derek R. Audette
America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded. -- Kurt Cobain
Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change. -- Stuart Duncan
I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in. -- Garson Kanin
It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more. -- Richelle Mead
I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that. -- Hasan M. Elahi
The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible. -- Freeman Dyson
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. -- John Muir
This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve. -- Roxane Gay
There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to. -- Janis Ian
Even though some people give you no respect, be intelligent when you put them in check, cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way. -- Too $hort
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes... -- Mark Twain
I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world. -- Jane Fonda
There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are! -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably. -- Mark Twain
The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path. -- Aleister Crowley
The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. -- Neal Stephenson
One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans. -- Kenneth Clark
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. -- Mark Twain
Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and magic people. But convictions, nonetheless. -- Bill Maher
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal. -- Oscar Wilde
Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in. -- William Penn
The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks. -- Fanny Kemble
Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America. -- Eliza Leslie
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people. -- Voltaire
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine. -- Albert Pike
You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter. -- Gene Wolfe

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