The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
Karl KrausRead
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The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.
Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.
Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
I remember thinking, when I was in my early 30s, that this is the best age to be, and I still believe your 30s are a wonderful time.
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.
I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; _x000D_ then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases it's simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.
The future was uncertain, absolutely, and there were many hurdles, twists, and turns to come, but as long as I kept moving forward, one foot in front of the other, the voices of fear and shame, the messages from those who wanted me to believe that I wasn't good enough, would be stilled.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified.
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.
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