Edward Bernays on Inertia and Civilization
“The great enemy of any attempt to change men’s habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.”
Edward Bernays
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Edward Bernays on Public Approval and Influence
“Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public’s consent to a program or goal.”
Edward Bernays
The best defense against propaganda – Edward Bernays
“The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.”
Edward Bernays
Edward Bernays: Difference between Propaganda and Education
“The only difference between ‘propaganda’ and ‘education,’ really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don’t believe in is propaganda.”
Edward Bernays
Edward Bernays on Propaganda and Public Relations
“When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And “propaganda” got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words “public relations”.”
Edward Bernays
Walter Lippmann Quote on Perception and Education
“We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.”
Walter Lippmann
The Thinker and the Immortality of Ideas – Walter Lippmann
“The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.”
Walter Lippmann
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative – Walter Lippmann
“You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.”
Walter Lippmann
Simple Solutions Are Often Wrong – Henry Louis Mencken
“There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.”
Henry Louis Mencken
Love is the Triumph of Imagination – Henry Louis Mencken
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
Henry Louis Mencken