"We are dominated by the relatively small number……" — Edward Bernays
"We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind."
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Edward Bernays
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44 Quotes by Edward Bernays
Edward Bernays has 44 quotes on this site.
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Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic…
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The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind…
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In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising…
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A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the…
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I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big…
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In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused.…
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The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the…
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We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard…
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Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject.…
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The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold…
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Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized…
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
— Aristotle
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way…
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Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
— Margaret Atwood
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path…
— Irving Babbitt
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
— Lord Acton
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
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Gun control means being able to hit your target. If I have a 'hot button' issue, this is definitely it.…
— Michael Badnarik
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
— Red Adair
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
— Abu Bakr
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