Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Sometimes, I’m very embarrassed.

People love conspiracy theories.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Love is an interesting thing.

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

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.