The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There’s a thing in psychology where they think if it’s popular, it can’t be serious.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

We do not wish to enter Heaven until our work is done, for it would make us uneasy if there were one single soul left to be saved by our means.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

Nature does nothing in vain.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.