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“The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty.”

Ifs Men World Able Suffering Religious Enemy Poverty Ignorance Sick Misery Dues Barriers Superstitions Intolerance Inability Perversion Religious Intolerance Microbes

Author:Brock Chisholm

“War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.”

Knows War Religious Ignorance Despair Hunger Barriers

Author:John F. Kennedy

“We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!”

Reason Seems Sides Ignorance Return Kings Europe Mark Come Up Shoulders Barriers Priests Southern Continents Globes Destined Barbarism Colossus

Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817

“When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens.”

Government Ignorance Citizens Weakness Climate Greed Climate Change Extremes Corporations Indifference Barriers Manifest Usual Mendacity

Author:Dale Jamieson

“Luckily for me, most of my work is through a brand or client who approaches my agent. Before I began modeling, I never realized how many barriers there were for people with disabilities within the industry. I didn't realize how much prejudice and ignorance existed. That made me even more determined to break down the barriers and to wake up the industry to the fact that beauty shows up in all different shapes, sizes and abilities.”

People Different Realizing Ability Break Ignorance Prejudice Wake Up Determined Barriers Disability Breaking Down Modeling

Author:Kelly Knox

“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”

Humans Would Be Spirit Knowledge Virtue Ignorance Barriers Superstitions Virgins Human Spirit Virginity Infantile

Author:Voltaire

“There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.”

Firsts Stills Two Facts Young Alive Middle Ignorance Communication Barriers Elders Forgetfulness Middle Aged

Book:To see the dream

Source: To see the dream

“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.”

Behinds Ignorance Products Tradition Prejudice Barriers

Author:Jasper Fforde

“Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. 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.”