Quotes On Political Illiteracy

#1. Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to ... A form of political illiteracy.

Bill Kraus

#2. Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.

Nicolaus Copernicus

#3. He had lost his faith in the invisible, and now prided himself, as such unfortunates invariably do, in the wisdom which rejected much that even his eye could see, and trusted confidently in nothing but what his hand could touch. This is the calamity of men whose spiritual part dies out of them ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.

L. Ron Hubbard

#5. My heart occasionally stuttered, out of sync, out of power - almost
as if it recognised death and wanted to give in. I forced it to do the bare essentials, keeping me from a grave. I was in the coffin ready to be buried, but I wasn't a corpse just yet.

Pepper Winters

#6. That which is not daring is nothing.

Kenneth Patchen

#7. The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

Joey Ramone

#8. Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

Trent Reznor

#9. My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase.

Rick Riordan

#10. Common sense will only get you a common life.

Bryant McGill

#11. Maybe he's just ... craving the meatloaf?"
Dani hops off the counter and gives me the once over. "Craving the meatloaf? Is that what the kids are calling it now?

Sarah Ockler

#12. married a giver, not a taker.

Kim Holden

#13. Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen.

Wilt Chamberlain

#14. Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

John F. Kennedy

#15. Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny
something greater than you could've imagined.

C.S. Lewis

#16. Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy.

Gerald Kaufman

#17. If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Charles Stanley

#18. Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

Daniel Berrigan