Barbara Kingsolver Quotes about Ignorance

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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Barbara Kingsolver

Ignorance, Air, Hot

Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.223, Faber & Faber

The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.

Barbara Kingsolver

Wall, Ignorance, Writing

Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.317, Faber & Faber