Confucius Wisdom: Why Lighting One Small Candle Beats Cursing the Darkness!
“It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.”
Confucius
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Wilhelm Busch Quotes: Why Perseverance Always Pays Off – Pure Inspiration!
“Perseverance is rewarded sooner or later, – but usually later.”
Wilhelm Busch
Pavlovian Strategy and Mass Opinion – Joost A.M. Meerloo
“The Pavlovian strategy in public relations has people conditioned more and more to ask themselves, “What do other people think?” As a result, a common delusion is created: people are incited to think what other people think, and thus public opinion may mushroom out into a mass prejudice. Expressed in psychoanalytic terms, through daily propagandistic noise backed up by forceful verbal cues, people can more and more be forced to identify with the powerful noisemaker. Big brother’s voice resounds in all the little brothers.”
Joost A.M. Meerloo
Joe Walsh on Trump: How Incompetent Leadership Destroys a Nation – The Powerful Quote
“In 14 months, Trump has turned America into a country that people around the world hate, fear, feel sorry for, laugh at, are sickened by, no longer believe in, and want absolutely nothing to do with.
I suppose when you put an utterly stupid, cruel, corrupt, lawless, dishonest madman in the White House, that’ll happen.”
Joe Walsh
Viktor Frankl Quote: Discover the Power of Freedom Between Stimulus and Response!
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Viktor Frankl
Two Half-Truths Don’t Make a Truth – Eduard Douwes Dekker
“Two left-handed gloves don’t make a pair. Two half-truths don’t make a truth.”
Eduard Douwes Dekker
Quote by Walter Lippmann on Censorship and Propaganda
“Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event”
Walter Lippmann
G. K. Chesterton Quote on Liberty and Tyranny – The Truth Revealed!
“Liberty is traditional and conservative; it remembers its legends and its heroes. But tyranny is always young and seemingly innocent, and asks us to forget the past.”
G. K. Chesterton
Fellowship Among Snakes – Quote by Juvenal
“Today there’s more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.”
Juvenal
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes: Unlocking the Power of Yearning and Inspiration!
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up men to procure wood, assign tasks and divide up the work, but teach them to yearn for the vast, endless sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry