#ignorance

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. ↗

— Kofi Annan

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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

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Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance. ↗

— Harry Lorayne

#cat #concerned #curiosity #healthy #human

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. ↗

— Henry Miller

#field #horizon #ignorance #increase #knowledge

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ↗

— Countess of Blessington

#chains #forged #ignorance #keep #men

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

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Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#collective #conscious #fear #hate #here

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor. ↗

— Paul Harris

#between #clashes #generally #ignorance #intelligence

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it. ↗

— Paul Harris

#bottom #clique #despises #hates #hatred

Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world - and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating industrially, which is to say eating in ignorance, are fleeting. Many people today seem erfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food #ignorance #industry #life #politics