top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Ignorance quotes
"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."
"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."
"Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!"
"Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge."
"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
Explore more quotes by James F. Cooper
"A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate."
"It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil."
"America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies."
"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."
"No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law."
"The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority."
"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."
"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."
"Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want."
"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."
bottom of page