A Quote by Ani DiFranco

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
American - Musician
Born: September 23, 1970

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

Elizabeth Moon

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

David Brock

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

Nita Ambani

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

Holly Lisle

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Lillian Hellman

Informing people about the world's problems opens up the possibility to address them and change them. Anything else is simply willful ignorance. I mean, what the hell should we do? Sit around blowing up balloons? Watching Disney-sponsored movies? I don't think so.

Henry Giroux

I say that we are wound With mercy round and round As if with air.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.

Michael Ondaatje

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.

George MacDonald Fraser

Liberals believe that they own blacks - still. They believe they're something proprietary about being black in this country, and if you deviate from the way they want you to think, in the way they want you to act, they grow violent.

Candace Owens

The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

M. Scott Peck

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.

Joni Mitchell

Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very important elements: academia and the arts. I was surrounded by theater, music, dance, museums. And I learned how to sail on the Charles River. So I had a great childhood in Boston. It was wonderful.

Leonard Nimoy

My job now is to not give up, to continue advocating and fighting for the issues Secretary Clinton ran her campaign on. I have to do that to show young girls in this country that they truly can grow up to be whatever they want to be - they need to know that they can grow up to be president.

Tammy Duckworth

That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN