The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
~ Buddha
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
~ Henry Rollins
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
~ Emma Goldman
In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
~ David Horowitz
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
~ Jeremy Bentham
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
~ Herbert Spencer
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
~ Addison Mizner
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
~ John Calvin
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
~ Eugenio Montale
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
~ John Maynard Keynes
