Edward Bernays Quotes

We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.

Edward Bernays

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• Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Almost
  • Effective
  • Satire

• I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Practice
  • Guitar

• For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Equal

• You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • Trying
  • Money
  • You

• On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • World
  • Different
  • Question

• The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

  

  Edmund White
  • Like
  • Always
  • Driver

• Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Up
  • Small
  • Stand

• I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

  

  Hans Blix
  • World
  • Together
  • Fear

• Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Great
  • Me
  • Sense

• You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.

  

  Dana Perino
  • America
  • You
  • Wall

• I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Acting
  • Stage
  • Say

• Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Truth
  • Feelings
  • Mother`s

• He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Without
  • Newspaper
  • Cut

• When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Bad
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• I have three dogs at home. Even after losing a series or winning a series, they treat me the same way.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Home
  • Winning
  • Same

• It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.

  

  Paul Desmond
  • Hit
  • Solo
  • Drum

• The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Children
  • Want
  • Government

• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Government
  • Bureaucrats
  • Human Stupidity

• Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Free
  • Ending
  • Libertarian

• Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Work
  • Job
  • Friends

• We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Government
  • Evidence
  • Leaders