Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

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 pull the wires which control the public mind.

The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

People want to go where they wanted to be led.

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.

I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

People do not always argue because they misunderstand one another, they argue because they hold different goals.

Sometimes we make duaa for a door of dunya. When it doesn't open, we cry. Not realizing that Allah has instead opened a door of jennah for us.