Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Okri

We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

Baruch Spinoza

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

Benito Mussolini

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

Jane Goodall

So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.

Alain Badiou

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

Charles Darwin

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!

Vandana Shiva

The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live.

Jared Diamond

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Tony Mortensen

It was the quietest silence I ever heard.

Carl Sandburg

Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

Calvin Coolidge

You don't have to explain something you never said.

Jane Austen

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

bell hooks

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Baltasar Gracian

Hear, see, and be silent.

Baltasar Gracian

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

Daniel Handler

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

Blaise Pascal

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

Kevin O'Hara

This is being billed as a seminal speech. I think this will be a big thing.

Bela Lugosi

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Anthony Trollope

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Dick Riley

Boy, what a speech, ... He made one of those wonderful, wonderful speeches to his people.

Rudy Meredith

You don't keep that speech in your back pocket.

Sam Mendes

There's no such thing as speech that is free.

Ann Coulter

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

Ann Coulter

They're Democrats always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.

Aeschylus

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.