The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.

Convince yourself that you can do it, and the rest of the world will automatically be convinced

One need not hope in order to undertake nor succeed in order to persevere.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower, or power, and act like a 20th-century dictatorship.

I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.

I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.