"It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated."

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Source : Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.35, IHS Press

Hilaire Belloc

#Suggestions Quotes #Population Quotes #Dull Quotes

“It took me a lifetime.”
“We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.”
“It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.”

Source : Reader's Digest Vol. 130, 1987.
“We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.”

Source : Terry Goodkind (2018). “Debt of Bones”, p.96, Tor Fantasy
“I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.”
“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.”

Source : Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.254, Virginia Woolf
“If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today”

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