“The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated.” AgePastPartyHalfIgnoranceRevolutionAimEducatedChainsTiesEnlightenedOur SocietySaddamHusseinLiberatedDespotismEmancipationOne Half Book:Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals) Source: Social and Foreign Affairs in Iraq (Routledge Revivals)
“Whatever Party of Men obtain the Reins of Management, and have power to name the Person who shall License the Press, that Party of Men have the whole power of keeping the World in Ignorance, in all matters relating to Religion or Policy, since the Writers of that Party shall have full liberty to impose their Notions upon the World.” MenWorldPersonsMatterWholeNamesPartyLibertyPolicyIgnoranceManagementPressesNotionLicenseReins Book:An Essay on the Regulation of the Press Source: An Essay on the Regulation of the Press
“If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife.” IfsPoliticalSocialPartyWifeViolenceIgnoranceClubsProtestBigotryTiedSheerMisogynyPolitical PartiesMafiaHomophobiaEnablers Author:Bill Maher
“The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.” ShouldLongHandsLinesUnitedPartyFrontsIgnorancePleaseTaxesClintonTemporaryFlagsEmbarrassingPinsReductionOld DaysMccainGasolineGood Old DaysUnited Front Author:James Fallows
“But if we keep denying that there are problems with some male immigrants, then we will just drive the people into the arms of the right-wing populists. Without the ignorance or the trivialization on the part of all the political parties, there would be no Pegida or Alternative for Germany.” PeopleIfsProblemWould BePoliticalPartyIgnoranceArmsWingsMalesAlternativesGermanyImmigrantsPolitical PartiesRight WingPopulist Author:Alice Schwarzer
“It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.” PeopleHumansHas BeensSeemsCausesPresidentPartyRaceIgnoranceRepublicanMembersHatredVoteShameSpeciesGreedHuman RaceCandidatesMotivatedRepublican PartyShort Sighted Author:Allen W. Wood
“Fox News and Rush Limbaugh have raised ignorance to ideology and stupefied an entire political party. No more roguish and rowdy band of predators ever did more to demean and despoil the democracy on whose carcass they feed.” PoliticalPartyDemocracyIgnoranceBandNewsRaisedIdeologyFoxesPolitical PartiesPredatorFox NewsRowdy Author:Bill Moyers
“I'm sick of the ignorance that lack of funding has generated, of the fathers who apporach me at dinner parties with their four-year-old girls clasped to their pant legs and say, "Yeah, but studies say kids can buy drugs more easily than they can buy alcohol." To which I always respond, "I guess that means you keep heroin in your liquor cabinet?” YearsMeanKidsGirlFatherPartyStudyFourIgnoranceDrugSickYeahLegsDinnerAlcoholFour YearsFundingLiquorCabinetsHeroinDinner Party Author:Koren Zailckas
“The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.” PoliticalIndividualEnergyChurchPartyEnemyIgnoranceGayOvercomingFormerLatterPolitical PartiesExesAttackingOrganisation Author:Anthony Venn-Brown