“Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.” LongHateNaturalIgnoranceRepublicanConsciousResourcesVoteWingsUnconsciousCollectivesApathyRight WingNatural ResourcesShortageConscious And Unconscious Author:Janeane Garofalo
“Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.” MenActionIgnoranceCivilizationLeagueCollectivesFrightenedBlindnessReassuranceBewildermentCollective Action Book:The Unfinished Country Source: The Unfinished Country
“Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.” LooksDoeActionIgnoranceMajorityCollectivesMisinformationInexperience Author:William J. H. Boetcker
“Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.” LightSidesBornDarknessIgnoranceShadowUnityAbsenceCollectivesShadow Side Author:John Hagelin
“We don't, as a collective life on this planet, all get groovy together or all sink into ignorance together. One by one we liberate our souls, our individual souls, from the cycle by our own realizations.” SoulTogetherIndividualIgnorancePlanetsRealizationCollectivesCyclesGroovy Author:George Harrison
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” PoliticsIndividualBeliefFreedomLibertyDemocracyEconomicIgnoranceLibertarianCollectivesLibertarianismPatheticDemocracies HaveIndividual LibertyVoting And DemocracyMajority RuleCollective Wisdom Author:H. L. Mencken
“Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.” MenMayFightingEvilIndividualGoalPovertyIgnoranceRevolutionSlaveryInjusticeVarietyReformCollectivesLive BySetting GoalsPredictableBerlinFighting Evil Author:Isaiah Berlin
“It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.” IfsNeedsStillsOpportunityIndividualJusticeMoralEconomicMankindSecurityIgnoranceDiversityMassOrdinaryAdvantageSocial JusticeEducationalDisasterIncomeSecureCollectivesProphecyProvisionImmunityCholeraDegenerationEconomic SecurityTyphus Author:R. H. Tawney
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” BelieveWarWisdomIndividualDemocracyIgnoranceIndividualityLibertarianCollectivesVoting And DemocracyStupidity And IgnoranceIgnorance Is Not BlissCollective Wisdom Author:Thomas Carlyle