The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Quotes
We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbThere is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbSanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920