Raoul Peck Quotes
Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.
Quotes to Explore
-
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
-
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
-
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
-
I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
-
God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
-
A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
-
The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
-
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
-
Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
-
Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.
-
I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.
-
Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
-
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
-
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
-
I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.
-
A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!
-
The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us activated and people thinking of themselves as defenders of it.
-
Racism springs from ignorance.
-
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.
-
The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.
-
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
-
When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.
-
Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.
