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“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”

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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

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The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions.…

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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…

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If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small…

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Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually…

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The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls…

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The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The…

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The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

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Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.

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The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he is called…

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Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

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I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big associations, but that it…

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I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that…

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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he…

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