More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.
A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth
There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and this will always be "the man in the street. " Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.
You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors you want to work with, doing little movies. There are no guarantees. I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of, if it's my last one. That's how I think about it.
Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect. . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .
When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.