If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Freedom is never given; it is won.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.