It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.
Swami VivekanandaWho makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Swami VivekanandaDelusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.
Swami VivekanandaAs the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form.
Swami Vivekananda