“Ignorant power is a bane!”
“The Finder” (p. 66)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
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American writer 1929–2018Related quotes
“If knowledge is power, ignorance cannot be bliss.”
James W. Loewen book Lies My Teacher Told Me
As quoted in Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong https://books.google.com/books?id=5m2_xeJ4VdwC&dq=%22although+he+may+be+poor+not+a+man%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s (2007), New York: New Press, p. 342 <br class="br">2000s, 2007, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (2007)
“Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.”
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“When ignorance and bigotry is allied with power, it is a dangerous force.”
Cory Booker (1969) 35th Class 2 senator for New Jersey in U.S. Congress
2018
Source: [Cory Booker blasts Republicans for amnesia over Trump's 'shithole' remark, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/17/cory-booker-blasts-republicans-for-amnesia-over-trumps-shithole-remark, The Guardian, Associated Press, 2019-03-11, 2018-01-17]
Source: [Booker to Nielsen: Your Silence is Complicity, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJeYvCZUDu0, Associated Press Archive, YouTube, 2018-01-21, 2019-03-11]
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Of Heresies
Meditationes sacræ (1597)
“Cold calculated awareness that their power lay in keeping the people in ignorance.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Lost Legacy
Lost Legacy (p. 333)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
Apollonius of Rhodes book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book IV. Homeward Bound, Lines 445–449
James Baldwin book No Name in the Street
No Name in the Street (1972)
Context: Well, if one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected — those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! — and listens to their testimony. Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person — ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.