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ignorance giving advice
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices. Benito Mussolini
ignorance circles drawing
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. Jane Goodall
ignorance rights law
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. Calvin Coolidge
ignorance media television
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. Alain Badiou
ignorance law profound
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! Charles Darwin
ignorance numbers issues
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. Vandana Shiva
ignorance past iron
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss. Jared Diamond
ignorance hands evil
She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing. Bret Easton Ellis
ignorance vanity causes
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. Blaise Pascal
pastor
As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone. John Allen
past thinking years
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time. Art Buchwald
past needs study
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future. C. S. Lewis
past mind use
Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. Bryant H. McGill
past attention genius
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present. Celia Green
past years justice
I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen. Bram Fischer
past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past thinking years
I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago. Bobby Fischer
past long looks
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there. Dennis Potter
irony maximum universe
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it. Jamie Zawinski
iron quitting maidens
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit. Bruce Dickinson
iron needs maidens
Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage. Bruce Dickinson
iron kind crosses
Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love. Ann Voskamp
iron steel heat
The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel. Marie Osmond
iron history endurance
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Theodore Roosevelt
iron palestine seeing
I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose. Theodor Herzl
iron window chains
Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains. Maya Angelou
iron waiting clubs
Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron. Patricia Briggs