Public Mind Quotes

41 quotes by 32 authors

The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep… — Alexander Hamilton
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that… — Abraham Lincoln
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed… — Abraham Lincoln
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in… — Abraham Lincoln
The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned… — James Madison
I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and… — Thomas Jefferson
I have one great political idea. . . . That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is… — Frederick Douglass
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be… — Horace Mann
By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind… — Adam Weishaupt
In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to… — Edward Bernays
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. — William Bernbach
It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency. — Emma Goldman
There has been a plan in effect since at least 1917 to create, an artificial Extraterrestrial threat to the planet Earth, so as to bring… — Milton William Cooper
This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little… — Immanuel Kant
I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true… — Robert E. Lee
If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will… — Edward Bernays
We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who… — Edward Bernays
Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema… — Russell Kirk
Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts… — Gene Logsdon
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined… — Thomas Jefferson

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