Accompanied Quote by Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

— Ry Cooder

Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.

— George Will

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

— William Beveridge

“Most causes of ignorance can be overcome, if people are willing to learn. Nothing, however, can overcome the toxic confluence of arrogance, narcissism, and…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“Coming at us like this--in waves, massed and unbreachable--knowledge becomes symbolic of our disempowerment--becomes bad knowledge--so we deny it, riding its crest until it…

— Ruth Ozeki

Ignorance always makes people create an argument and it is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in it.

— Vikrant Parsai

The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination…

— Dainin Katagiri

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

— Harold MacMillan

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

— Malala Yousafzai

The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing…

— Eric Hoffer

“Put simply, people tend to do what they know and fail to do that which they have no conception of. In that way, ignorance…

— Steven Sloman

To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the…

— Sri Aurobindo