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

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Source : Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

Edward Bernays

#Exercise Quotes #Power Quotes #Agents Quotes

“Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.”
“I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.”
“Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.”
“Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)”
“Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you... ?”
“A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.”
“Anytime you can already have somebody in a pinning position where they can't kick out, what better than that for a brilliant man.”
“All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.”

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