Illiterate Quotes
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. Salinger -
To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.
Thomas Sowell
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The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed.
William Blum -
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
will.i.am -
If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.
David Warlick -
The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.
Michael Hastings -
I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.
Alonso Duralde -
In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.
Dan Gillmor
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I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."
Scott Glenn -
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
George Bernard Shaw -
Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.
George Barna -
White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate.
Chris Crass -
I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.
Terry Eagleton -
What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?
Delores Phillips
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School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
Ambeth R. Ocampo -
My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.
Gerard Depardieu -
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.
David Mumford -
A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -
No, I consider myself computer illiterate.
Casper Van Dien