David Brock Quotes

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say you did not know.

I don't want to be that person who's looking squarely at the shortcomings in the process right where I sit and then choose to walk away and do nothing.

Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

People should always know better.

The word responsibility is right, and doing everything you can to educate yourself and learn and be aware.

If you know but do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?