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“As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.”

People Speak Wealth Influence Ignorance Greed Ill Dues Punishment Forests Enjoyment Productive Consideration Righteousness Awards Devoted Severe Fury Respectable Dwelling Owing Hermits

Author:Chanakya

“Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.”

Universe Ignorance All Things Ill Stranger Ease Unwelcome

Book:Poems of King Alfred

Source: Poems of King Alfred

“Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.”

Problem Community Deals Moral Issues Ignorance Prejudice Mental Health Ill Lgbt Stigma Collide Blight Health Issues

Author:Stephen Fry

“Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.”

Virtue Ignorance Eternal Direct Eternity Ill Dare Providence

Book:The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author

“God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright.”

Ignorance Ready Weakness Ill Courteous Tutor

Author:Richard Hooker

“Young people have been ill-educated, mis-educated, propagandized. I see it in everything I read written by young people. You can spot it a mile away, their ignorance. And it's coupled with they think they're the only people that know. They're arrogant. They're a little bit smarmy about what they think they know and nobody else does, which is a characteristic of young people anyway. I was that way when I was young.”

People Thinking Knows Way Littles Doe Has Beens Young Bits Written Ignorance Little Bit Ill Miles Educated Spots Characteristics Arrogant Miles Away

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”

Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

“The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.”

Poor Poverty Ignorance Weapons Hunger Ill Illness Hungry Sophisticated Arsenal Illiterate

Author:Fidel Castro

“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”

Today Evil Meditation Ignorance Meetings Ill Dues Selfishness Each Day Interference Ingratitude Offenders Disloyalty Insolence Ill Will

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence - by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”

“Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.”

Reason Strong Results Atheism Ignorance Pride Eating Property Ill Manners Plague Good Eating

Book:Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

“The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.”

Thinking Ignorance Surprise Ill Ignorant Manners Admiration Betray

Author:Mark Twain