John Grierson Quotes

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• We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.
• Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what…
• Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore…
• It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more…
• And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
• Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there…
• In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.
• My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can…
• Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never,…
• The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the…
• When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
• The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
• The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.
• The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable…
• For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did…
• My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself…

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