Famous 80s Song Quotes & Sayings

When a power elite wants to destroy an enemy nation, it turns to propaganda experts to fashion a program of hate. What does it take for the citizens of one society to hate the citizens of another society to the degree that they want to segregate them, torment them, even kill them? It requires a "hostile imagination," a psychological construction embedded deeply in their minds by propaganda that transforms those others into "The Enemy." That image is a soldier's most powerful motive, one that loads his rifle with ammunition of hate and fear. The image of a dreaded enemy threatening one's personal well-being and the society's national security emboldens mothers and fathers to send sons to war and empowers governments to rearrange priorities to turn plowshares into swords of destruction. — Philip G. Zimbardo

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

We find in them an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched. Still, we ought not to burn them. — Voltaire

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals. — Francis Schaeffer

Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is. — Ignatius Of Antioch

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it ... — Elie Wiesel

Into the woods
you have to grope,
But that's the way you learn to cope.
Into the woods to find there's hope
Of getting through the journey. — Stephen Sondheim

You can never love people as much as you miss them. — John Green

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze. — Ramana Maharshi

Most new ideas come to us not through pure logic, but through a fusion of memory and imagination. If new ideas were purely a product of rationality, other people would quickly grasp and embrace novel solutions. People's lack of imagination prevents them from comprehending the significance of an innovative idea. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing. — Steve Irwin

Life is something for which there is no answer; it must be understood from moment to moment. — Bruce Lee