Top 30 Quotes About Illiterates

#1. If educated ones would behave like illiterates, how the nation would end corruption?

Vikrmn

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#2. It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.

William J. Brennan

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#3. Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days

Elias Canetti

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#4. Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

Chuck Klosterman

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#5. We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.

Billy Graham

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#6. The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

Alberto Moravia

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#7. Illiterates have to dictate.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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#8. At least forty million Americans can't read and write, according to this morning's New York Times. That is six times as many illiterates as there are people of Armenian descent anywhere! So many of them and so few of us!

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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#9. Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Ayn Rand

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#10. Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code.

Karl Kraus

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#11. Some illiterates held writing in disdain; others seemed to have a superstitious reverence for the written word, as if it were some sort of magic.

George R R Martin

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#12. Magic is the word illiterates use for phenomena they can't explain.

T.K. Kiser

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#13. Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money ...

Katherine Anne Porter

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#14. The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era
but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.

Hunter S. Thompson

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#15. Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Werner Herzog

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#16. Change is an institution that we all have to get enrolled into if we are really willing to make a difference! Those who are illiterates to change agree that whatever will be will be! That does not sound well!

Israelmore Ayivor

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#17. Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.

Holly Estil Cunningham

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#18. Have you really stolen a car?" "I have really stolen many cars before." "Could you steal my car?" "Your midrange car with no theft protection devices that you keep unlocked in your garage that is also unlocked?" Marcos snorted in disbelief. "Yes, I could steal it.

Kele Moon

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#19. Martin Mayer's 1958 book Madison Avenue USA

Paul Feldwick

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#20. Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

Paul Theroux

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#21. Patience is, therefore, the faculty of enduring a painful sensation, and yet looking confidently and steadily to the period when that sensation shall cease.

William Pinnock

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#22. Sometimes leaving is the only thing you can do.

Patrick Rothfuss

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#23. People die of fright and live of confidence.

Henry David Thoreau

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#24. Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

Yoko Ono

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#25. Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.

Tom Waits

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#26. Though whether the mass murder of strangers for one's principles ranks higher in virtue than attacking one's neighbours for the hell of it is a point I'm glad I don't have to settle.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#27. An ex-libris is to the book what a collar is to the dog

Edward Gordon Craig

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#28. And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious, and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any times exists, as fast as shall be practicable consistently with integrity and good faith.

Alexander Hamilton

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#29. There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.

Robert Wyatt

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#30. Quantity brings recognition and accolades

Sunday Adelaja

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