Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!
Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!
Religion is the opium of the masses.
With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!
Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace!
If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.
Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation." As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?
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