Prejudices Propaganda Politics Quotes & Sayings

Up the coast a few miles north, in a lava reef under the cliffs, there are a lot of rock pools. You can visit them when the tide is out. Each pool is separate and different, and you can, if you are fanciful, give them names, such as George, Charlotte, Kenny, Mrs. Strunk. Just as George and the others are thought of, for convenience, as individual entities, so you may think of a rock pool as an entity; though, of course, it is not. The waters of its consciousness - so to speak - are swarming with hunted anxieties, grim-jawed greeds, dartingly vivid intuitions, old crusty-shelled rock-gripping obstinacies, deep-down sparkling undiscovered secrets, ominous protean organisms motioning mysteriously, perhaps warningly, toward the surface light. How can such a variety of creatures co-exist at all? Because they have to. The rocks of the pool hold their world together. And, throughout the day of the ebb tide, they know no other. — Christopher Isherwood

No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders. — Edward L. Bernays

Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.

Those fighting to keep those people out - are. — Jon Stewart

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own. — Peter Buffett

The purest white seems stained. — Laozi

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life. — Natalie Du Toit

It has already been noticed that the Nazis were not simple nationalists. Their nationalist propaganda was directed toward their fellow-travelers and not their convinced members; the latter, on the contrary, were never allowed to lose sight of a consistently supranational approach to politics. Nazi "nationalism" had more than one aspect in common with the recent nationalistic propaganda in the Soviet Union, which is also used only to feed the prejudices of the masses. The Nazis had a genuine and never revoked contempt for the narrowness of nationalism, the provincialism of the nation-state, and they repeated time and again that their "movement," international in scope like the Bolshevik movement, was more important to them than any state, which would necessarily be bound to a specific territory. And — Hannah Arendt

Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death. — Deepak Chopra

The only precious things in life breathe. — Kristen Ashley

Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image. — Blaise Pascal

It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed. — Alexander Pope

Let's hope you feel better now. — Jack Kevorkian

There is a classic esthetic which romantics often miss because of its subtlety. The classic style is straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned. Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown known. — Robert M. Pirsig

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published. — Elliott Erwitt

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. — Victor Hugo

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. — Robert A. Heinlein

Laws tend to be temporary over the long haul, Moneo. There is no such thing as rule-governed creativity. — Frank Herbert

Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags. — D. A. Pennebaker