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Docile Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
- Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.
- The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to…
More Docile Quotes
- The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine… — Edith Stein
- Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
- You must know how to translate the indications of the word into daily witness, allowing yourselves to be formed by the word… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines… — Michel Foucault
- The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught… — George W. Melville
- We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered,… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
- It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and… — Unknown Author
- And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does… — Plato
- We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not… — William O. Douglas
- And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the… — Louis Aragon
- Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile,… — William Sims
- To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you… — Primo Levi