Edward Bernays Quotes

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

Edward Bernays

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• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Man

• I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Up
  • Government
  • Human

• I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Identity

• When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it.

  

  Raekwon
  • Feel
  • Members
  • Brand

• 'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Lost
  • Air

• I'm Owen Hart and I have my own identity and my own style.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Style
  • Identity
  • My Own

• Although advertised as 'invite only', it has been reported by Forbes Council members and invitees that this 'invite' came with a membership fee.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Members
  • Council
  • Membership

• Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Identity
  • Most
  • Iran

• We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Identity
  • Nation
  • Cards

• Freedom of expression doesn't mean tweeting through fake accounts. If the government has to be transparent, Twitterati should also reciprocate. This will help stop defamatory and criminal traffic on the Net. We should amend the law to force disclosure of identity.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Help
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Human beings are largely motivated by their emotional repertoire, manifested through their need for attachment, physical security, a sense of belonging and a positive personal and collective identity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Positive
  • Emotional
  • Identity

• The Germans always had difficulties with their identity. Either it was too much and too loud, or it was hidden and too subservient. The French always had a healthy self-confidence. When they spoke of a 'grande nation' it was not dangerous. De Gaulle could say on Martinique: 'Behind me is the ocean. In front of me is France'.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Confidence
  • Identity
  • Ocean

• Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • America
  • War
  • Cold

• Growing up, my religious identity was primarily one of confusion. Nothing was pushed on me; nothing was overtly offered.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Religious

• The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state's Jewish identity. The refugees' place is not among us, and the initiative to transfer them to Australia is the right and just solution.

  

  Danny Danon
  • Identity

• So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Passion

• Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

  

  Bill Viola
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feeling

• Owning my identity... ties into my value of dignity.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Value
  • Identity

• If somebody walks in to me and says, 'I'm a gay person, I want a job in your office,' I would say that's inappropriate, and they wouldn't be hired because that would mean they are promoting their agenda.

  

  Mark Neumann
  • Job
  • Gay

• I love doing action. Since I'm not 21, there's some, 'Let me get to the gym so I can do it.' But I love to defy expectations.

  

  Angela Bassett
  • Action
  • Gym

• Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Money
  • Car
  • Chance

• Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • World
  • Love
  • Fool

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

  

  Edward Bernays
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