Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 215 Ignorance quotesIgnorance QuotesIgnorance Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes One of the serious results of propaganda is that it has caused the public to think that education and propaganda are the same thing, and thus to make an ignorant multitude believe it is being educated when it is only being manipulated. Education aims at independence of judgement. Propaganda offers ready-made opinions for the unthinking herd.~ Everett Dean Martin It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.~ William Gibbs McAdoo Journalism is a profession that prides itself on its maverick outspokenness and allergic reaction to preconceived notions. Yet, in today’s media some notions are considered beyond scrutiny – including the merits of the diversity agenda.~ William McGowan The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.~ H. L. Mencken The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.~ H. L. Mencken The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth -- that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.~ H. L. Mencken The ideal type of the Communist is a man in whom all individual, emotional, and unconscious elements have been reduced to a minimum and subjected to the control of an iron will, informed by a supple intellect. That intellect is totally at the service of a single and compelling idea, made incarnate in the Communist Party: the concept of History as an inexorable god whose ways are revealed ‘scientifically’ through the doctrine and method of Marxism-Leninism.~ Frank Straus Meyer Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.~ Henry Miller As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.~ John Mills It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.~ James Monroe One cannot shut ones eyes to things not seen with eyes.~ Charles Langbridge Morgan When it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.~ John Viscount Morley When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.~ Edward R. Murrow Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.~ Ogden Nash As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.~ Lyn Nofziger The term consumerism has been current since the middle 1960s, about the same length of time as the Department of Transportation itself. Literally interpreted, the word means 'an ideology based on the opposite of being productive.' This ideology has caused enormous changes in the American economy. At one time complaining was a cottage industry. The typical maker of complaints gave them to (or traded them with) friends and family members. Sometimes the complaints were sent to newspapers or included in prayers. Friends, family, the press and God then ignored the complaints. In the sixties, however, various consumer advocates began to help complainers find a market for their wares. There is only one organization that is required to take everyone -- and their complaints -- seriously. So the government became the foremost grumble customer. And it is, of course, the government's bureaucratic agencies who have to do the buying.~ P. J. O'Rourke I think that there's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.~ George Orwell The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.~ George Orwell Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print