John Grierson famous quotes

04-23-2025

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
-- John Grierson

#Manipulation #Done #May
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
-- John Grierson

#Philosophy #School #Pursuit Of Happiness
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
-- John Grierson

#Loss #Views #Would Be
In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.
-- John Grierson

#Facts #Individual #Outlook
Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.
-- John Grierson

#Drama #Exotic #Earth
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
-- John Grierson

#Art #Powerful #Information
It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.
-- John Grierson

#Two #Important #Opinion
Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.
-- John Grierson

#Leadership #Appreciation #Creative
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
-- John Grierson

#People #Political #Matter
We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.
-- John Grierson

#Adventure #Funny Travel #States
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
-- John Grierson

#Lying #Heart #Paradox
The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.
-- John Grierson

#Training #World #Lines

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