“If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.” IfsWritingBookMightRomanceCultureNamesForgetLuckyPaperPopsListsIgnorantSpellsTopicsLitFascinationPop CultureChicksNew Yorkers Author:Jennifer Weiner
“One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.” WorldChildrenWarHateCultureViolenceOne ThingTaughtGrewMetsGrew UpIgnorantFormerTalibanOutside World Author:Greg Mortenson
“What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?” PeopleWorldLittlesMightYoungValuesCultureNamesSafeDenyMotherhoodIgnorantValue SystemsLittle Knowledge Author:Nafis Sadik
“Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.” ChildrenDoneCareCultureEvilWomenCommitIgnorantRemedyWorthless Book:Character Source: Character
“The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.” StillsFeelingsCultureLiteratureStyleCrimeMassMurderIgnorantPossessedUngratefulPopular CulturePoisoning Book:Letters of George Sand Source: Letters of George Sand
“They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?” TwoCultureCenturyWesternIgnorantMysticalVulgarCrudeWestern CultureBarbaricAllureLibertineSuccumbingTemplars Book:Foucault's Pendulum Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.” PeopleThinkingMenCountryEnoughUseCultureSpeakTalkingAtheismModernDangerEvolutionEarsAncientPositive AtheismIgnorantLegendsGenesisSpeaks OutGreat CountryCanonModern Culture Author:Luther Burbank