QUOTE A DAY - July 8, 2014

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Today we bring you several quotes from Edward Bernays. He was Freud's nephew and applied his uncle's theories of the subconscious for propaganda purposes. Bernays was hired by the US government to whip the population into a war frenzy prior to WW I. His techniques are still used to this day.

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JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
Modern propaganda is a consistent, enduring effort to create or shape events to influence the relations of the public to an enterprise, idea or group.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda

[In} its sum total, it [propaganda] is regimenting the public mind every bit as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda

In our present social organization, approval of the public is essential to any large undertaking. Hence a laudable movement may be lost unless it impresses itself on the public mind.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
...when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal alien strikebreakers to break the strike. And, for over 30 years, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has looked the other way and assisted in the strikebreaking. I do not remember one single instance in 30 years where the Immigration Service has removed strikebreakers.... The employers use professional smugglers to recruit and transport human contraband across the Mexican border for the specific act of strikebreaking...

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
It was of course the astounding success of propaganda during the war that opened the eyes of the intelligent few in all departments of life to the possibilities of regimenting the public mind.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda

At the same time, the manipulators of patriotic opinion made use of the mental clichés and the emotional habits of the public to produce mass reactions against the alleged atrocities, the terror and the tyranny of the enemy.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda

[The new propaganda] takes account not merely of the individual, nor even the mass mind alone... It sees the individual not only as a cell in the social organism but a cell organized into the social unit [FB Groups?]. Touch a nerve at a sensitive spot and you get an automatic response from certain specific members of the organism.
--Edward Bernays, Propaganda


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

...when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal alien strikebreakers to break the strike. And, for over 30 years, the Immigration and Naturalization Service has looked the other way and assisted in the strikebreaking. I do not remember one single instance in 30 years where the Immigration Service has removed strikebreakers.... The employers use professional smugglers to recruit and transport human contraband across the Mexican border for the specific act of strikebreaking...

ANSWER: Caesar Chavez

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