Harold Wilson Quotes

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

As far as I can see there are no problems with people in our band as far as the relationships go anyway.

Civilization is only possible through the individual becoming part of the whole and just as collective authority in the interests of all limits the egoism of the individual ... it similarly has the right to implement such measures for the benefit of the community as are scientifically proved expedient in the way of population policy or eugenics.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

We interact with the crowd, turn it into a party.

It's amazing how sports is a way to control the masses. But it also unites people.

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party

Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas.

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.

People don't know where they stand and what they're going to lose, and that makes things uncertain. The political parties try to meld people together, but then that becomes a problem. There are parallels here, to American cities, which, in the '80s, with massive rural to urban migration, saw incredible amounts of violence.

In this environment it was a simple matter for The Republic to maintain its structure. People did as they were told because they were working together, focused on a common threat, a shared enemy. But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.

Forcing people into a situation where they're supposed to adore each other is probably bad. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, that's good.

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.

The anointed are helped to make yet another group feel like victims and to regard the anointed as their rescuers.

I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.