Richard M Perloff quotes

“Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities, and appealed to the latent, darkest prejudices of Germans.”
-- Richard M Perloff

Source : Richard M. Perloff (2017). “The Dynamics of Persuasion: Communication and Attitudes in the Twenty-First Century”, p.279, Taylor & Francis

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“I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe.”

“The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.”

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

Source : Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

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“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.”

“The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.”

“The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.”

“REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.”