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• As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented.

  Edward Bernays

  Mean, Government, Civilization

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

  Edward Bernays

  Men, Civilization, Enemy

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• The invisible government tends to be concentrated in the hands of the few because of the expense of manipulating the social machinery which controls the opinions and habits of the masses. To advertise on a scale which will reach fifty million persons is expensive. To reach and persuade the group leaders who dictate the public's thoughts and actions is likewise expensive.

  Edward Bernays

  Government, Hands, Leader

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.

  Edward Bernays

  Education, Teacher, Jobs

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

  Edward Bernays

  Men, Psychology, Groups

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

  Edward Bernays

  Life, Freedom, Exercise

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  "Propaganda".

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• In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.

  Edward Bernays

  Mind, Guarantees, May

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• Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.

  Edward Bernays

  Fighting, Intelligent, Men

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.124, Lulu.com

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• If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway.

  Edward Bernays

  Leader, Groups, Cooperation

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.

  Edward Bernays

  Real, Democracy, Receiving

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• 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

  Leadership, Teacher, Issues

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand.

  Edward Bernays

  Typical, Demand, Today

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.

  Edward Bernays

  Order, Waiting, Demand

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.

  Edward Bernays

  Ideas, Age, Technique

  "Manipulating Public Opinion". American Journal of Sociology, Volume 33 (pp. 958-971), May 1928.

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• I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big associations, but that it will in addition be a competition of propaganda.

  Edward Bernays

  Believe, Competition, Association

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

  Edward Bernays

  Practice, Fabric, Dozen

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays, 1928.

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• Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority.

  Edward Bernays

  Thinking, Competition, Majority

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.21, Lulu.com

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

  Edward Bernays

  Identity, Cabinets, Invisible

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• The best place to find things: the public library.

  Edward Bernays

  Library, Best Place, Public Library

  "The Father of Spin". Book by Larry Tye, p. 102, 1998.

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• For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.

  Edward Bernays

  Reason, National Geographic

  "The Father of Spin". Book by Larry Tye, p. 102, 1998.

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

  Edward Bernays

  Numbers, Together, Manipulation

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he is called in by an advertising agency to supplement its work on behalf of a client. His work and that of the advertising agency do not conflict with or duplicate each other.

  Edward Bernays

  Men, Agency, Clients

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