"The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest."

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Source : Edward L. Bernays (2013). “Public Relations”, p.116, University of Oklahoma Press

Edward Bernays

#Freedom Quotes #Engineering Quotes #Essence Quotes

“With the evolution of technology, kids really need to be computer-savvy.”
“Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.”
“There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.”
“Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.”
“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”
“My sister might be dumb, but that doesn't make her all that different from the rest of us. She's just like any other American. Except she's Canadian. And retarded.”
“Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The truth of course was otherwise, but Lecha had never felt she owed anyone the truth, unless it was truth about their own lives, and then they had to pay her to tell them.”

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