#lever

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#application #clever #consider #constant #hell

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. ↗

— Mark Twain

#clever #exclamation-point #writing #writing-advice

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#arrangement #believes #civilization #ingenious #inventor

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#arise #cleverness #confusion #duty #faithful

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #dishonest #good #good thing

Clever tyrants are never punished. ↗

— Voltaire

#never #punished #tyrants

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#answered #ends #great #human #human thought

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#audience #clever #make #obvious #subtleties

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#half #intelligent #know #men #mr

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. ↗

— Graham Greene

#beautiful #clever #pitiless #successful #then