“If the ignorant keeps silent, people would not differ.”

“The atmosphere of desperate, ignorant terror essential to healthy rumors seeps away, replaced by a silent, wary paranoia. People bunker down, jealously keeping what they know, which is nothing, to themselves.”

“Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.”

“Cold calculated awareness that their power lay in keeping the people in ignorance.”

“The idea that human populations are genetically different from one another has been actively ignored by academics and policy makers for fear that such inquiry might promote racism. The argument offered here is that people the world over are highly similar as individuals but that societies differ widely because of evolutionary differences in social behavior. It would be better to take account of evolutionary differences than to continue to ignore them.”

““The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich. It’s self-inflicted fear and ignorance that keeps people trapped.”

“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”

“But you can't ignore dense people-they're not unarmed; they're armed differently.”

“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”

“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”