A lot of people who voted for Trump, working class people, voted for Obama in 2008. They were seduced by the slogans "hope" and "change. " They didn't get hope, they didn't get change, they were disillusioned. This time they voted for another candidate who is calling for hope and change and has promised to deliver all kinds of amazing things.
Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
The movies had a slogan at the time, to distinguish themselves from TV, that said 'movies are better than ever. '
economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.
In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.
Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.
There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
The people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit. . . the people who truly deface our neighborhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff. . . . any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you ,, its yours to take, rearrange and re use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.
I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.
Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.
Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.
What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
I don't really like the slogan 'It boy. '
If I can make it, you can make it.
Make America great again is not just some slogan. It is what has been in his heart since the day I met Donald Trump.
From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Slogan-making is not poetry.
