“Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.”
Vintage, p. 38
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965)
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French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarch… 1912–1994Related quotes
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