Edward Bernays Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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I like to look good on the golf course.
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In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.
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What else could he possibly have done? What choices did he ever have?
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I do not want an echo of myself from my children. I do not want to hear from them merely the reverberation of my own voice.
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Cardio is tough after a day of skating, but with my iPod I can get into the moment and complete the cardio training for the day.
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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
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And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
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All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.
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If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.
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They wanted me to have a point of view, to have my mind made up from the start on a number of things. I was to be tolerant but I was not to budge beyond a certain point, and if ever I was threatened at that point, I was to stand where I was and fight. My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. The said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.
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Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.
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Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.
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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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When we first started out we only had five or six songs we could play live, so if we ever got an encore, we used to do our cover of City High's 'What Would You Do?' We'd be playing it and people's mouths would be moving singing all the words, but they'd be thinking, Where is this song from? It's such a brilliant pop song but the lyrics are so dark.
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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.
