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“The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.”

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

Politics Individual Belief Freedom Liberty Democracy Economic Ignorance Libertarian Collectives Libertarianism Pathetic Democracies Have Individual Liberty Voting And Democracy Majority Rule Collective Wisdom

Author:H. L. Mencken

“My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.”

Problem Social Deals Poverty Economic Ignorance Periods Disease India Priorities Massive Economic Problems

Author:Manmohan Singh

“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.”

People States Political Liberty Opinion Economic Subjects Crime Ignorance Discipline Economics Libertarian Ignorant Loud Irresponsible

Author:Murray Rothbard

“It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.”

Has Beens Together Knowledge Economic Ignorance Limits Profitable Wrong Direction

Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

“Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.”

Home Political Politics Situation Economic Ignorance Involved Hunger Sickness Seriousness Degradation Futility Political Change

Author:Shirley Chisholm

“Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times.”

“The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.”

Mean Real Form Economic Dangerous Ignorance Argument Ignorant Aristocracy

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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.”

“People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.”