When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
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The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.John Grierson
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
John Grierson
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
John Grierson
The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.
John Grierson
The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs.
John Grierson
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
John Grierson
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