Illiterate Quotations | Page 2

The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

I read that script. It's one of the most disgusting, foul things I've seen -- by any illiterate retard -- in a long time. There's no limit to how low some people will go to write something to make money.

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.

The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn.

Both of their fathers came from Bangladesh 40 years ago as unskilled, almost illiterate laborers. They went to work in the garment factories in the midlands. Later, they brought their wives over and put their children in school.

You're illiterate to just about everything. You don't want to misspell. So that, for me, kept me...in a box and I didn't, wouldn't come out.

You're illiterate to just about everything. You don't want to misspell,

New Orleans was a real poor city, a real illiterate city, ... But folks who came here just want a chance. We are working people.

Ignorance and illiteracy are obviously not synonymous; even illiterate masses can cast their ballots with intelligence, once they are informed.