It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
To have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rumselling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to... be longer quietly submitted to.
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.
The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
Sadly, there are a lot of ignorant people that have access to a microphone.
People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!
