"Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities."

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Source : Nancy Signorielli, George Gerbner (1988). “Violence and Terror in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography”, p.21, Greenwood Publishing Group

George Gerbner

#Strong Quotes #Fear Quotes #Simple Quotes

“He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
“Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.”
“In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature.”

Source : Ludwig Feuerbach (2012). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.2, Courier Corporation
“Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over the world and no translator is required. Photography is truly a universal language, transcending all boundaries of race, politics and nationality.”
“What's a punk band? Hey, who's got a beer?”
“I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.”
“Bonar Law never led his Party. He was always looking over his shoulder to see if he was being followed.”
“Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.”

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