The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.

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.

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

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.

Friendship, neglected, is like a flower deprived of water and sunlight.

If the holy spirit is in you, you are free, even if you are in a physical jail

The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want is to have fun.

I was teaching magic at NYU when I was 16.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

I played almost four hours today, ... Im very, very tired.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

Time really has gone by fast. I don’t know if your path is pre-written or what, but it’s crazy how one thing just leads to another.

Grissom is pretty asexual. He's not that interested in anything other than work - except for Lady Heather. She's the closest to getting his heart of anyone.