#slogan

This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he was once so gullible and needy that he drank deeply of such weak and fruity Kool-Aid. That's some other book. Slogans saved my life. All of them--the dumb ones, the preachy ones, the imperatives, the cliches, the injunctives, the gooey, Godly ones, the shameless, witless ones. ↗

— David Carr

#addiction #alcoholism #slogans #life

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#betraying #coin #critic #criticism #fashion

I don't really like the slogan 'It boy.' ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#i #like #really #slogan

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be. ↗

— Franz Boas

#intended #kind #may #mind #object

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself. ↗

— Gabriel Heatter

#ever #every #every man #hand #himself

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#creative #disagree #i #i think #in other words

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#hear #slogans #truth #us #which

Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.' ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#being #cannot #china #close #contemplation

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic. ↗

— Robert Welch

#democracies #everywhere #first #forget #great

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep. ↗

— William Weld

#deep #government #i #money #only