The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.

The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

People want to go where they wanted to be led.

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half."~ Emmeline Pankhurst

‎"If there is no discipline, there is anarchy. Good citizenship demands attention to responsibilities as well as rights.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.

There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

I believe in a zone of privacy.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.

I just want to have fun.