Theodore Dreiser Quotes

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.

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

I can't manipulate anybody's minds.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

It's easier to scare someone than to persuade him.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.

I'm a believer, but an unsettled one. I think it has something to do with the fact that my grandmother always told me she would come back and tickle my feet at night time when she passed away. She hasn't gotten me yet. But I keep the blanket over my feet at night, no matter how hot it is.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

When a wrong thought is told a thousand times and impressed on one’s brain, one starts feeling the falsehood as truth. Similarly if the mind of slave is hammered of slavery, he starts enjoying his slavery

We came not here to view your works In hopes to be more wise, But only, lest we go to Hell, It may be no surprise.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force.

The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable position they must keep the people shackled to a form of mental slavery.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who do fear him.

One need only watch totalitarians at work to see that once men gain power over other men’s minds, that power is never used sparingly and wisely, but lavishly and brutally and with unspeakable results.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.

I hate fear politics.

All different religions have laws based on fear, the fear of going to hell.

Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.