If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.
Nixon staff assistant Chuck Coulson used a variant of this quotation. See {628753}.
There is no greater mindlessness and absurdity than to force conscience and the spirit with external power.
He who labors with his mind rules over he who labors with his hand
It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.
Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you’re worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.
If you're injecting fear into other people, then you're trying to kill their minds. You're trying to get them to stop thinking.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
I can't control everybody's mind.
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force of arms than to subjugate the minds of a single village... .
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
The power of the mind. Basically, being able to control anyone's mind. That would be a very good power.
In every fight the strategy is to baptize and take their soul - that's always the strategy.