“The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences.” SelfMomentsPastIgnoranceSense Of SelfPast ExperiencesSamsara Author:Frederick Lenz
“We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.” MenHas BeensMatterPastSinCitiesIgnoranceDestructionSupremeShipsGuiltyInstanceWhat MattersCaptainsCrewWickednessWrecksSinking Book:Plato's Statesman Source: Plato's Statesman
“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)
“The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.” NeedsYearsEndsPastHateSpeakCan DoIgnoranceDiseaseMiracleMedicineAidsIndifferenceAccomplishedOur SocietyVirusesOver The PastStigmaEpidemicsSpeaks OutCan Do SomethingMisinformationAids Epidemic Author:Elton John
“History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.” IfsWorldLooksPastWaitingUnderstandingLinesForgetHistorySkyIgnoranceWindWallPaperSeedsFallenPushingFlatsHorizonGrainTrappedPullingPencilsNestsHaltDomesSlitsRelinquishingGreat WallPushing Back Author:Han Suyin
“In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” IfsDifferentWarRealMatterPastEffortPrinciplesPovertyGroupsSubjectsObjectsIgnoranceVictoryBasesStructureEastVersionsMeant To BeAsiaRulingStarvationEast Asia Author:Michael Moore
“Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.” TodayPastResultsCommonGenerationsIgnoranceCommunicationEssentialsDestructionResponsibleForgivingEnvironmentalDialogueEthicalExaminationConfrontationPivotalEnvironmental Destruction Author:Dalai Lama
“A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.” DifferentWarPastEffortPrinciplesPovertyGroupsSubjectsObjectsIgnoranceVictoryBasesStructureEastVersionsAsiaRulingStarvationEast Asia Author:George Orwell
“Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about.” LifeNeedsMadeLightPastUnderstandingUnitedImpossibleFrontsIgnoranceEnlightenmentUnityCondemningMore KnowledgeUnited Front Author:Malcolm X
“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.” TwoPastHumanityWealthPowerfulKnowledgeEconomyTakenEnvironmentEconomicCenturySecurityIgnoranceMaterialsDevelopmentComfortEconomicsIgnorantMost PowerfulElitesBrutalOver The PastEconomic DevelopmentPersonal Health Author:Ross Garnaut
“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.” WorldWantHeartMeanIdeasPastInterestExistenceStruggleIgnoranceIllStupiditySelfishTrialsInventionTreatedBitterRevolutionaryAdolescenceStrifeHeartlessTribulationTrials And TribulationsPedantryStupidity And IgnoranceRevolutionary IdeasSelfish Interest Author:Nikola Tesla
“Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem” IfsWantMeanDoePlayProblemHappensPastMovingGamesCommunityIgnoranceReadyEvidenceListsAssPocketsBad AssPhysicistInvoke Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.” ReasonPastCompassionKindnessIgnoranceMereIdeology Author:Ron Reagan
“What has been done is little-scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.” KnowsLittlesHas BeensDonePastScienceTurnsKnowledgeCenturyIgnoranceAstronomyIgnorantComparisonBlankGarmentsDespisedHem Author:Agnes Mary Clerke