QUOTE A DAY - July 22, 2014

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
But today because ideas can be instantaneously transmitted to any distance and to any number of people, this geographical integration has been supplanted by many other kinds of groupings, so that persons having the same ideas and interests may be associated and regimented for common action, even though they live thousands of miles apart.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda

The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses... In the present structure of society this practice is inevitable.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible governments.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda

The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda

Fortunately (sic), the sincere and gifted politician is able, by the instrument of propaganda, to mold and form the will of the people.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

ANSWER: W. Somerset Maugham, "Strictly Personal", ch. 31 (1941)

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