"The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action."

-- Jacques Ellul

#Ideas Quotes #Action Quotes #Propaganda Quotes

“I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.”
“After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.”

Source : Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.
“The greatest contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those in our lives is to have peace in our own hearts.”
“But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible”
“My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.”
“I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.”
“A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.”

Source : Quoted in Israel and Mary Shenker, As Good as Golda: The Warmth and Wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister (1970)
“You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.”

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