Ignorance Politics Quotes

#1. Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact ...

Charles Babbage

#2. The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

Voltaire

#3. The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

Noah Levine

#4. These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

Alain Badiou

#5. Politicians and figureheads bank on the amnesia of the ignorant.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#6. I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt like a dream, trickle away, water on the oiled pelt of foreign.

Jasmine Ann Cooray

#7. Only priests and politicians benefit from a people's ignorance.

Ki Longfellow

#8. The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you ... and then, the worse things get.

Frank Zappa

#9. He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing.

Bill Maher

#12. General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Herbert M. Shelton

#13. I'm not a political Christian; for the most part I allow people even their vain, earthly rights. And I certainly don't see anti-Christians as bad or evil (as if they actually have the power to pose any kind of threat against God Almighty), but rather complete idiots I was commanded to love.

Criss Jami

#14. Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Frank Zappa

#15. It is not a conspiracy, don't call it a conspiracy. It is all out in the open and it stands on the ignorance, apathy and stupidity of the American people that is the foundation upon which the New World Order is built.

William Cooper

#16. I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan

#17. We convince ourselves that even our shameless waste, our unchecked consumption and our appalling ignorance of anyplace in the world except our own little corner must continue
or they win! No, when you become smarter and less gluttonous, you win. We all win!

Bill Maher

#18. Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

Ronald Reagan

#19. After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

Harold Macmillan

#20. Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

Bob Marley

#21. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#22. For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.

Tony Blair

#23. We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#24. Politics, these days, is no occupation
for an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better.

Aristophanes

#25. Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#26. It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions.

John Stuart Mill

#27. The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#28. He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

Malala Yousafzai

#29. They argued about the weather, sports, sex, war, race, politics, and religion; neither of them knew the subjects they debated, but it seemed that the less they knew the better the could argue.

Richard Wright

#30. He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#31. You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

Will.i.am

#32. Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

Mark Twain

#33. We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.

Russell Brand