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"Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other."
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"The majority of people on earth are ignorant of what their time should be used for."
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"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
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"Either they're still naive, or stupid."
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"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."
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"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."
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"I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance."
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"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it."
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"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age."
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"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"
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"Ignorance is kind of bliss."
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"They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory."
Nature
"The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society."
Government
"Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other."
Ignorance
"No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law."
Power
"Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman."
Quality
"Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion."
Government
"It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
Man
"It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master."
Man
"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity."
Democracy
"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
Man
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