#confuse

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#craving #endorsement #life #should

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#against #city #confuse #decadent #destroying

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#confuse #democracy #idea #images #often

If you can't convince them, confuse them. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#convince #them #you

We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership. ↗

— Artur Davis

#america #around #celebrity #confuse #country

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#broad #came #concerned #confused #constitutional

I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#american people #believe #confuse #going #hatred

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#confused #emotions #intellect #lie #may

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#america #blood #confuse #dare #descended

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#defeat #final #never #single