"Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support."

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Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.159, Broadview Press

Randal Marlin

#Revenge Quotes #Party Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?”
“Religion and science look at reality differently.”

Source : "Religion vs. Science’s Answers to the Big Questions" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2012.
“In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps us to discover the links between events that at first sight seem unconnected... For this to happen, it is necessary to develop an appropriate environment, a kind of 'eco-system' that maintains a just equilibrium between silence, words, images and sounds.”
“Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;...”

Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (2009). “Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
“Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."”
“I believe that a perfect house is like a perfect person; no one really wants to be around them and everyone secretly hates them. Be the weird person. Be the interesting person, the person that sometimes says inappropriate things or laughs too loud at jokes, and have your home reflect who you are.”
“An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.”

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