“ A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. ”
- Tacitus- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Why do we want to test people for drugs and alcohol? Why don't we test them from stupidity, illiteracy and avarice? The place would be better. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 987
“ The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. ”
- Alvin Toffler- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.1K
“ In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. ”
- Ezra- Copy
- 3.2K
“ She began the first of what we later called 'my lessons in living.' She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
- 2.9K
“ People are the common denominator of progress. So… no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development… But we are coming to realize… that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy… ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy. ”
- Pope John Paul II- Copy
- 3.7K
“ There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind… ”
- Jan Ashford- Copy
- 765
“ As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy. ”
- Nursultan Nazarbayev- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation. ”
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud… ”
- George Steiner- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance… ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
- 1.9K
- 1