We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale Copy Share Image
I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sentence… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Today the greatest divide within humanity… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
No one else understands us 7th sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes, we are often… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Normally if I met a guy who was unemployed and illiterate who hadn't bathed in a couple of weeks, I'd be standing… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill,… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
The worst way of oppression involve exploitation of children, preying on vulnerability, denying others the right to live safely, and denying people… — Alice Glass Copy Share Image
I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't… — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's… — David McCullough Copy Share Image