The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them
Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.
When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.
Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.
Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.
For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
What passions cannot music raise or quell?
Music is to be praised as second only to the Word of God because by her all the emotions are swayed. That is why there are so many songs and psalms. This precious gift has been bestowed on men alone to remind them that they are created to praise and magnify the Lord.
I'm a lightweight better be careful what you say With every word I'm blown away You're in control of my heart
I have the power to control the crowd's emotions.
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men's thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law.
It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.
Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.
I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.
Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
There is a sweetness in being the sole source, the autocratic and irresponsible cause of the greatest joy and profoundest pain to another.
The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
Words and ideas can change or influence the mind just like music can - yes, like a spell. Regarding the effect of my "spells" I think it varies; my music communicates with some, and I think it has had a positive influence on the minds of those who like it. I hope it helped them see the world from a different perspective.
