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Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.
– Ursula K Le Guin

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  1. Ignorance is Illiteracy. – Ahtesham
  2. They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance. – Ursula K Le Guin
  3. The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. – Ursula K Le Guin
  4. … privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom. – Ursula K Le Guin
  5. When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people. – Mahrukh
  6. Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness. – Shankara
  7. In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. – Ezra Pound
  8. Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops… eventually it all catches you at the same time. – Johnnie Dent Jr
  9. A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  10. A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  11. Your brand is your personal lawyer… It defends and speaks for you even in your absence. Keep calm and maintain a good brand! – Israelmore Ayivor
  12. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. – Amos Bronson Alcott
  13. You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others. – Henry Rollins
  14. This is the eternal challenge with ignorance -” ignorance can’t see itself. – Bryant McGill
  15. There is no break in the wholeness of time. – Ursula K Le Guin
  16. The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
  17. The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction. – Ursula K Le Guin
  18. I was with you at the beginning of your journey. It is right that I should follow you to its end. – Ursula K Le Guin
  19. Nobody who says, -˜I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. – Ursula K Le Guin
  20. The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women. – Ursula K Le Guin
  21. You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. – Ursula K Le Guin
  22. I know perfectly well he’s a god, too. But what I think is he’ll be much godlier after he’s dead. – Ursula K Le Guin
  23. Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety? – Ursula K Le Guin
  24. Power inheres in a center. You’re going to the center. – Ursula K Le Guin
  25. You don’t speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them. – Ursula K Le Guin
  26. But you’re so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating. – Ursula K Le Guin
  27. The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile. – Ursula K Le Guin
  28. Fish and visitors stink after three days. – Ursula K Le Guin
  29. To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. – Ursula K Le Guin
  30. Was he leaving home, or going home? – Ursula K Le Guin
  31. A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras. – Ursula K Le Guin
  32. But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity. – Ursula K Le Guin
  33. The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well. – Ursula K Le Guin
  34. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. – Ursula K Le Guin
  35. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine time patience – Ursula K Le Guin
  36. To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. – Ursula K Le Guin
  37. Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub. – Ursula K Le Guin
  38. The premise is: everybody’s like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don’t think like me don’t matter. – Ursula K Le Guin
  39. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. – Ursula K Le Guin
  40. The strength of Shevek’s personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable. – Ursula K Le Guin

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