George Santayana Quotes
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Reason in Society. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.
Referring to the tactics of the opposition Republican party.
Big Tobacco was very successful in forestalling the loss of their profits.
After the invasion, much of the intelligence upon which America relied on Invading Iraq turned out to be completely wrong. It turned out that the Vice President at least, a major supporter of the invasion, had a role in “shaping” the intelligence and analysis to achieve a policy objective.
Amy is responding to Michelle Obama’s claim that “any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice.”
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana, was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Originally from Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in the US from the age of eight and identified himself as an American, although he always retained a valid Spanish passport. At the age of 48, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently.
