Lack of Awareness Quotes

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

The president, apparently, was so totally unaware of where his foreign policy was that he had to appoint a distinguished commission to help him locate it, and when the commissioners called him in to testify, he told them, essentially, that he couldn't remember what it looked like. Now, if Richard Nixon had claimed something like that you would at least have had the comfort of knowing he was lying. You could trust Nixon that way. But with this president, you have this nagging feeling that he's telling the truth.

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

You see, we didn't know.

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

I remember I autographed it to Mutt Lange, and I may only have put one t on Mutt. I mean, I'd never heard of such a name. I'm sure he must've thought that was quite funny. He must've known from that autograph, right off the bat, that I had no idea who he was.

Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

Again, (America is) a stupid country with stupid people who don't pay attention.

There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

I think maybe our team was too young and stupid to even know what was going on.

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.