Absolutes Quote by Calvin Coolidge

An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable…

— Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

— Arundhati Roy

All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

— Noam Chomsky

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

— Maynard James Keenan

All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

— John Simon

Education is imposed ignorance.

— Noam Chomsky

Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged.

— Thomas Jefferson

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which…

— George William Curtis

...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief…

— Bertrand Russell

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

— Barbara