The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

  • -- George Bancroft 班克罗夫特

无知的偏见比兴趣的偏见更容易消除;第一种方法都是盲目采用的,第二种方法则是故意选择的。

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

如果正义被剥夺,贫困被强制执行,无知盛行,任何一个阶级都感到社会是一个有组织的阴谋,企图压迫、抢劫和贬低他们,那么无论个人或财产都不会安全。

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

否认之所以存在,是因为人类的婴儿虽然配备了信任量表,但天生就盲目地、绝对地信任任何一个从他们身边走过的老人。

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

理想主义,唉,不能保护一个人免受无知,教条主义和愚蠢。