Edward Bernays Quotes
The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
Quotes to Explore
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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I could have gone on flying through space forever.
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Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
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(Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
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Requiring governments to make all publicly held information and data available to people - thus giving citizens a powerful tool to expose corruption - is just one aspect of the accountability revolution that can be unleashed if the report’s recommendations are implemented in full.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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I'm going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali.
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I remember the shock of seeing Ray undressed. He looked as if he had a squirrel hanging there. I had an acorn.
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I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and balances.
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She's a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.
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The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
