Ignorant Masses Quotes

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  Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Stupid, School

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.578, Routledge

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• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Stupid

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• The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Two, Support, Mind

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Government, Enemy

  "Force and Opinion". Article by Noam Chomsky, chomsky.info. July, 1991.

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• 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.

  Abu Bakr

  Education, Learned Person, World

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• A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

  Grantland Rice

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

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• 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!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fall, Simple, Stupidity

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• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  Karl Marx

  Weed, Atheist, Fear

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• With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorant, Mass, Back In Time

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• Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Leader, Flags, Glory

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• My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

  Peter Drucker

  Asking Questions, Asking Too Many Questions, Economy

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• The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

  Bodhidharma

  Anger, Passion, Evil

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• Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Hate, Men

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• 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.

  John Perry Barlow

  Ideas, Comeback, Knowledgeable

  "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August 1, 2004.

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• Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

  Sydney Smith

  Courage, Ignorance, Order

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.198

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• 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.

  Catharine Beecher

  Family, Powerful, Divorce

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1871). “Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession”, p.9

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• 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?

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Fashion, Religious, Views

  H.P. Blavatsky (2014). “Isis Unveiled”, p.780, Lulu Press, Inc

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