"Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Perception Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Embedded Quotes

“Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order.”
“Today is what's thought about long ago. Now today we have to project, think, experiment, prototype the future.”
“[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.”

Source : Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster
“In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic missiles with which to actually kill them. Propaganda precedes technology.”
“The descent to Hades is the same from every place.”

Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers), c. 200 A.D..
“This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.”
“My three P's would be pray, pray first. Second, prepare, and then persist.”

Source : "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.
“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.”

Source : YouTube Chanel "AbecedariusRex"/ "Golding's Introduction to Lord of the Flies", www.youtube.com. May 22, 2010.

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