Activism Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A…

— James Madison

“The difficulty in governing the people arises from their having much knowledge.”

— Lao Tzu

“Books educate people and educated people ask awkward questions of those who govern them. The educated, in short, are considered ungovernable. Better to keep…

— The Economist

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

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

— Larry Page

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.

— Terry Pratchett

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily…

— Anonymous

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

— Laozi

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

An educated people can be easily governed.

— Frederick The Great

The population has to be educated about how the government actually works.

— Aaron McGruder