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

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.

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.

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

Belief in yourself is more important than endless worries of what others think of you. Value yourself and others will value you. Validation is best that comes from within.

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.

I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car. I'm only lonely after dark. I'm only lonely when I watch my TV. I'm only lonely occasionally.

Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.