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“I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.”

“Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a star. You could be a moron and be wealthy. The elements that went to make up vaudeville were combed from the jungles, the four corners of the world, the intelligentsia and the subnormal.”

“Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.”

Feels Children Matter Individual Force Acting Appreciate Blind Endure Ignorant Educated Acknowledge Bows Sovereignty Majesty Mandates Admitting

Book:Common School Journal

Source: Common School Journal

“The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art”

Art Individual Duty Ignorant Insult Hinder

Book:Complete writings: with variant readings

Source: Complete writings: with variant readings

“Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most of the facts on which the working of society rests...civilization rests on the fact that we all benefit from knowledge which we do not possess. And one of the ways in which civilization helps us to overcome that limitation on the extent of individual knowledge is by conquering intelligence, not by the acquisition of more knowledge, but by the utilization of knowledge which is and which remains widely dispersed among individuals.”

Way Facts Helping Individual Civilization Members Benefits Overcoming Remains Ignorant Conquer Limitation Possessed Acquisition Fractions More Knowledge Utilization

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.”

Mind Joy Individual Lost Brain Taken Sweet Miracle Breaths Satisfaction Crowds Smell Stupidity Tricks Ignorant Admiration Popularity Multitudes Rise Above Apollo Discerning Marveling

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.”

Knows World Persons Care Desire Individual Felt My Own Existence Destiny Millions New York Strange Concerned Ignorant Hopeful Insignificant Mold Unimportant Strange World

Book:Daughter of Earth

Source: Daughter of Earth