Gil Courtemanche quotes

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.
-- Gil Courtemanche

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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

Appearances often are deceiving.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

For the Lord touched all parts of creation, and freed and undeceived them all from every deceit.

We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures.