Ignorant Majority Quotes

#1. The ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight.

Elfriede Jelinek

#2. Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully, who are blessing you? Mud in the ground or stars in the sky?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.

John Steinbeck

#4. If we do not bear the cross of the Master, we will have to bear the cross of the world, with all its earthly goods. Which cross have you taken up? Pause and consider.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#5. In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but shifts continually and alters from year to year.

Jean Bodin

#6. The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

Richard Baxter

#7. He never made fun of her as her neighbors did. That was why she visited him. He felt in this mad, ugly woman five years his senior a comrade in apartness. He liked people who refused to recognize the world.

Yukio Mishima

#8. Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

John Simon

#9. In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing.

Catherine Keener

#11. It is impossible that all the individuals of a nation can be immoral and ignorant; but it is very possible that the majority of the individuals of a nation can be immoral and ignorant!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Your mind believes what you tell it.

Paul J. Meyer

#13. Good shoveling - and then I walk

Anita Shreve

#14. We must endure the ignorant to protect the liberty of the majority.

James D. Best

#15. Curiosity shivered up my spine.

Megan Shepherd

#16. There is something powerful in Metallica, a will, a drive.

James Hetfield

#17. You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.

Doug Graham