Stuart Chase

“Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.”

“While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”

“Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits.”

“To be sure, the 'civilized' man has wonders in his soul which cavemen never dreamed of. But he has horrors in his soul which cavemen never dreamed of either.”

“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”

“The first lesson of semantics is that the word is not the thing.”

“Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.”

“The human mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.”

“We have learned to harness the forces of nature, but we have not learned to control ourselves.”

“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”

“When a man is starving, he is not a free man.”