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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.