will.i.am Quotes

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.

The fundamental error of Europe has been to confine the light of knowledge to the wealthy and great, while the humble and the depressed have been as sedulously excluded from its participation as the wretched criminal, immured in a dungeon, is from the light of Heaven.

If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation.

The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.

The system seems to most people as rigged, and it is.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

I've got no education.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.