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.
Edward Bernays, Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923).
Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.
Anthony Daniels writing as Theodore Dalrymple, Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (2001).
Domination to-day is not a product of armies or navies or wealth or policies. It is a domination based on the one hand upon accomplished unity, and on the other hand upon the fact that opposition is generally characterized by a high degree of disunity.
Edward Bernays, Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923).
You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you. If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.
James Baldwin and Margaret Mead: A Rap on Race (1971).
They constantly try to escape
Thomas Stearns Eliot, Choruses from The Rock (1934).
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
W. H. Auden, Epitaph on a Tyrant (1939).
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.