Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.

The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

People want to go where they wanted to be led.

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.

i trust our connection, regardless of what logic has to say.

I discovered, however, in the early days of our marriage that, in having her way, she put my interests ahead of her own.

My philosophy of life: “Don’t just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.

You can have whatever you want, as long as you don't need it.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.

If I could read a book, I'd definitely read one of yours.

This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way.

There is no actual law that says that a person of inner beauty cannot also maintain an appearance.