Effects Quote by John Dos Passos

That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions…

— Azar Nafisi

The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions…

— Hans Morgenthau

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

— John Charles Polanyi

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the…

— Henry Adams

The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power;…

— Albert Pike

As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It…

— Robert Bork

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that…

— William Morris

The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks…

— Anonymous

“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best…

— Azar Nafisi

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best…

— Azar Nafisi

Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain…

— Samuel Johnson

“The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were meant to…

— azar Nafisi