QUOTE A DAY - July 17, 2014

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
Is this government by propaganda? Call it, if you prefer government by education. But education... is not sufficient. It must be enlightened expert propaganda through circumstances, through the high-spotting of significant events, and the dramatization of important issues.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda

The public must be put in its place, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and roar of a bewildered herd.
--Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, 1922

[W]e are dominated by the relatively small number of persons - a trifling fraction of our 120 million - who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Ideas and phrases can now be given an effectiveness greater than the effectiveness of any personality and stronger than any sectional interest.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
The instruments by which public opinion is organized and focused may be misused. But such organization and focusing are necessary to orderly life.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda

In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.
--Giorgio Bassani, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

[The] need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated. The technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Ideas and phrases can now be given an effectiveness greater than the effectiveness of any personality and stronger than any sectional interest.

ANSWER: H.G. Wells, NY Times

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