Unorthodox famous quotes

No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.
-- Alan Bullock

#Integrity #Patriotic #Unorthodox

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?
-- Anatol Rapoport

#Ideas #Progress #Unorthodox

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
-- Ben Bernanke

#Thinking #Trying #Unorthodox

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical
-- Boris Yeltsin

#Thinking #Important #Unorthodox

It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.
-- Caryl Parker Haskins

#Twilight #Rivers #Unorthodox

Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels.
-- Hugh Hefner

#Angel #People #Unorthodox

By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.
-- Ilana Mercer

#Government #Voting #Unorthodox

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.
-- Lee DeWyze

#Player #Guitar #Unorthodox

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.
-- Nancy K. Miller

#Writing #Unorthodox #Masculine

If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction-possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The use of chemotherapy is even advocated by those members of the establishment who realize how ineffective and dangerous it can be.
-- Ralph W. Moss

#Cancer #Unorthodox #Use

I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Unorthodox #Different #Stuff

I hold the ratchet unorthodox. Pernell Whittaker, I'm duckin' all sorts of shots
-- Vinnie Paz

#Ratchets #Unorthodox #Shots

I watch YouTube and other peers of mine. There's a lot of things I can't do and also I'm very unorthodox, I want to work on my mechanics and technique.
-- Eric Hernandez

#Technique #Unorthodox #Watches

The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.
-- Ronald Knox

#Catholic #Mind #Unorthodox