illiteracy

I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather evil, and definitely thoroughly unpleasant, but she also didn't read.

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it.

The smallest world on earth is that which is created by a closed mind.

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn__ hear, doesn__ speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn__ know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn__ know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine.

We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development.

Illiteracy is the number one promoter of ignorance.

Illiteracy is simply the inability to read and write.

Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever imagine.