Murray Edelman famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes
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It's all a compost heap. You just put down a layer of humus that helps other stuff grow. Your work will all be forgotten, but it will help stuff grow.
-- Murray Edelman
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A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
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Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
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I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.
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If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.
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Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.
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I founded this school for the masses.
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It is the Mass that matters.
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