Illiterate Quotes

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. (Alvin Toffler)
As I have said before, the ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. View quote
Fidel Castro
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. View quote
Aleister Crowley
I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal. View quote
Octavia Butler
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own. View quote
Anselm of Canterbury
I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a "deserter." What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar, and a functional illiterate. And he poops his pants. View quote
Michael Moore
One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. (Alan Moore)
A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus. View quote
Benito Mussolini
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. View quote
Jimmy Carter
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. View quote
Walter Lippmann
That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action. View quote
Syama Prasad Mookerjee
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man. View quote
Colin Wilson
I am the son of an illiterate father and mother. View quote
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. View quote
William Faulkner
The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence. (African Spir)
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope. View quote
Alberto Manguel
Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him. View quote
Peter Drucker
Images are books for the illiterate and silent heralds of the honor of the saints, teaching those who see with a soundless voice and sanctifying the sight. View quote
John of Damascus
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians. View quote
Mohsin Hamid