Top 1200 Ignorant Masses Quotes & Sayings

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

If Wii was about gaming for the masses, then think of DSi as creativity for the masses.

Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties. We must unite with the masses, the more of the masses we unite with, the better

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

I have made it a point to reach out to the masses personally - so I am there as a symbol for the masses.

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses

We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is of any great influence, and that, as a whole, the theory is not only unproved, but impossible, the ignorant, half-educated masses have acquired the idea that it is to be accepted as a fundamental fact.

But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.

The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.

Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation." As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!

The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision.

If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.

Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.

What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool. Democratic politicians must appeal to these masses in order to be elected. Whoever is the best demagogue will win. Almost by necessity, then, democracy will lead to the perversion of truth, justice and beauty.

The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The various substitutes have not proved so successful from the standpoint of results that they could be regarded as a useful replacement for previous religious creeds. But if religious doctrine and faith are really to embrace the broad masses, the unconditional authority of the content of this faith is the foundation of all efficacy.

Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?

Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and greatly reducing the real prices they had to pay for what was produced.

Contrary to what we, the people, have been told, we are the power; we have supreme authority because we are the masses and true power always resides with the masses, never with the global elite who, by their very nature, have always been a vulnerable minority and will always continue to be...As long as the masses realize that, of course.

Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

When I make fried chicken I always serve masses and masses of fresh mangos. It's a great combination.

Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you!

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.

Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!

All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.

But I think your biggest crime as a citizen of society or America or the world is to be ignorant by choice. There's no excuse for that. I feel, when the information is at my fingertips, I could never choose to be ignorant.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace!

A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.

Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!

There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.