Ability Quote by George Will

There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

— Ry Cooder

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

— Malala Yousafzai

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

— Harold MacMillan

“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

“exacerbated eagerness to exploit the ignorance and prejudice of voters.”

— Jean Tirole

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

— Harold Macmillan

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

— William Beveridge

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

— Vera Brittain

“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 is a voluntary misfortune.

— Nicholas Ling

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

— Steve Schmidt