This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.
- Joseph Goebbels
It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.
The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.
They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
- Bhagat Singh
It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.
No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done
- Nas
It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.
- Steven Biko
While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.
- Thomas Sankara
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
- Marie Curie
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
- Steven Wright
Ideas do not need weapons.
- Fidel Castro
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
- Nikola Tesla
Words that do not match deeds are not important.
- Che Guevara
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
- Angela Davis
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
- Adolf Hitler
Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.
- Bryan Stevenson
Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
- Malcolm X
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.
- Grace Kelly
...by crushing individuals, they cannot kill ideas.
It's the execution that matters, never the idea.
- Casey Neistat
If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.
- John Henrik Clarke
Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.
- Kai Greene
No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.
- John B. Watson
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex
- Albert Einstein
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas.
- Benjamin Franklin
The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.
- Lal Bahadur Shastri
You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.
- Medgar Evers
Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.
- Antonin Scalia
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
- Nelson Mandela
By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.
- Joseph Stalin
The idea that the harder you work, the better you're going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.
- Bill Bowerman
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
- Shirley Chisholm
Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.
- Grace Lee Boggs
You can arrest me, but you can't arrest my ideas.
- Julius Malema
The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.
- Richard Rohr
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.
- Amartya Sen
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
- Sri Aurobindo
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
- Sigmund Freud
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.
- Edward Said
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.
- Martin Luther
You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.
- Shimon Peres
The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.
- Friedrich August von Hayek
Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
- Bill Nye
Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.
- Sam Walton
The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.
Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.
- Howard Hughes
He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all
- Richard Bach
