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  • You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.

    Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.
  • TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

    Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.372, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • there are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.

  • Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.

    Dream   Expression   Evil  
  • Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.

    War   Firsts   Gang  
    Source: dhakadigest.net
  • To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

    Book   Lazy   Film  
    "Alan Moore: The reluctant hero", www.independent.co.uk. March 15, 2004.
  • If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon.

    Thinking   Causes   Apes  
  • I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.

    Funny   Humor   Mind  
  • National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

    Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.112
  • The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

    "Days with Bernard Shaw". Book by Stephen Winsten, 1949.
  • 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.

    Reading   Crafts   Crowds  
  • An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and the white, men and women - live happily as children of the same Lord. Thus experiencing the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God.

  • When we begin to understand the concept of Karma we will never ever blame God for anything that happens to us. We will realise that we are responsible for all that happens to us. As we sow, so shall we reap. Rich or poor, saint or sinner, miser or philanthropist, learned or illiterate ... This is the Universal Law that applies to individuals, to whole communities, societies, nations and races. As we sow, so shall we reap.

  • I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

  • White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate.

    White   People   Taught  
  • I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

  • Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You’re three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down.

    Moving   Kids   Feet  
    "Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1". Interview with Amanda Fortini, www.theparisreview.org. 2009.
  • Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

    Believe   Brain   Trying  
    John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin
  • The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.

    Media   Woven   Fabric  
    William Blum (2003). “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”, p.15, Zed Books
  • Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

    'The Rivals' (1775) act 1, sc. 2
  • I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

  • Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

    Giving   Facts   Details  
    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.697, GENERAL PRESS
  • It’s scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are.

    Thinking   People   Needs  
  • The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.

    Phones   Games   Age  
    Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.213, Spiegel & Grau
  • Normally if I met a guy who was unemployed and illiterate who hadn't bathed in a couple of weeks, I'd be standing in a puddle with excitement, but I'm sort of in a bad mood tonight, so take this bag and give me the fu**ing paper before I pop your head like a zit. He said, you're a lesbian, aren't you?

    Couple   Giving   Guy  
  • If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.

    Real   People   Giving  
  • Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

    Writing   Speech   Able  
  • No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

  • I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure that illiterate children remain so, and preventing the resuscitation of the public health sector in the country most in need of it. Lunacy is what it is.

  • Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of definitions you would be illiterate. If one limits oneself to a peculiar definition like 'new music,' 'avant-garde,' or something like that, I think it's like cutting out half the dictionary.

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