Edward Bernays Quotes

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

Edward Bernays

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• Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Together
  • Future
  • Society

• Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Help
  • Society

• The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Society
  • Internet

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Society
  • Balanced
  • Must

• The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Important
  • Age
  • Society

• I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Society
  • Always
  • Honor

• The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Country
  • Society
  • Free

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • History
  • Society

• There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Society
  • Wife

• The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Artist
  • Musicians

• Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • May
  • Book
  • Society

• If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Job
  • History
  • Society

• Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Society
  • Wellbeing

• We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Society
  • Create
  • United

• Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Society

• When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Society
  • Freedom

• The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

  

  Laurence Tribe
  • People
  • Home

• Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Respect

• Official brutality, which characterizes boot camps in America, is inhuman and does not work.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Work
  • America
  • Brutality

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

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Society
  • Human Beings
  • Cooperate