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“Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.”

Energy Left Emotion Pieces Particular Speech Display Inclination Occasional Drained Sensational Mesmerized

Author:John Keegan

“Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.”

Language Emotion Speech Presses Rolling Amplify

Book:Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.”

Ifs Emotion Audience Honest Speech Applause Insincere Faking It

Author:Robert Orben

“Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.”

Source: Foundation Trilogy

“In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.”

Thinking Mind Together Used Simple Emotion Consciousness Color Speech Perception Ordinary Weight Embrace Complexes Including Affair Sensations Items Texture Psychologist

Author:Jacques Barzun

“A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.”

Ifs Mind Eye Left Emotion Speech Majors Ears Occasions Execution Fascination Immune Horrific

Author:Michael Foot

“Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech.”

Self Individual Emotion Speech Majors Setting Settings Mastery Listeners Theatrical Dealings Self Confident Diffidence

Book:Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris

Source: Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris

“Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.”

Emotion Expression Circumstances Speech Stress Objectivity Adjectives Moss Dank

Author:Ezra Pound