John Ashcroft Quotes

Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Though I had an idea of what was going on - I purposely didn't see it.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn't mean they aren't there, even if we wish they weren't.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

In the Small group the individual can know the effects of his actions on his several fellows, and the rules may effectively forbid him to harm them in any manner and even require him to assist them in specific ways. In the Great Society many of the effects of a person's actions on various fellows must be unknown to him. It can, therefore, not be the specific effects in the particular case, but only rules which define kinds of actions prohibited or required, which must serve as guides to the individual.

To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.

You only live once, why be miserable? Fat people are miserable -- you are carrying 50 lbs on your shoulders all day, you get a disease called "pooped-out itis". Don't tell me that they are happy with the way they look and feel. I have to be honest, that is all I have.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

It used to be that if someone was to get involved in feminism, it was probably because they were already interested. They were already interested in feminism; they were already interested in being an activist, and they found their way to like a NOW meeting or to a consciousness-raising group or something like that.

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

My reputation is different among different groups. You have your fans, your non-fans, your team, your crew, your family, your friends and then you have your peers. I think they're all different and each of them have their separate opinions about you.

Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.