Mark Crispin Miller famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.
-- Mark Crispin Miller

#Media #People #Want
Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.
-- Mark Crispin Miller

#Friendly #Culture #Advertising
Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
-- Mark Crispin Miller

#Hands #Perfection #Immoral
Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.
-- Mark Crispin Miller

#Pain #Lying #Compassion
Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.
-- Mark Crispin Miller

#Communication #Thinking #Atmosphere
The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.
-- Mark Crispin Miller

#Culture #Pressure #Relentless

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way...
[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with...
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.

Mark Crispin Miller famous quotes

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