Mark Crispin Miller quotes
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“Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth.”
-- Mark Crispin MillerSource : Attributed to Mark Crispin Miller in Michael A. Kirchubel "Vile Acts of Evil - Volume 1 - Banking in America" (p. 224), 2009.
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“Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.”
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“Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.”
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“Bush is almost always clear when he's speaking cruelly. For example, when the subject is the punitive infliction of great pain, there is no problem with his syntax, grammar, or vocabulary, even if he happens to be lying. ... On the other hand, our president is extraordinarily tongue-tied when he's trying, off the cuff, to sound a note of idealism, magnanimity or -- especially -- compassion.”
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“Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.”
-- Mark Crispin MillerSource : Mark Crispin Miller (1988). “Boxed in: The Culture of TV”, p.11, Northwestern University Press
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“The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.”
-- Mark Crispin Miller
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“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”
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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
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Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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“The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.”
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“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “This Book Will Save Your Life”, p.29, Granta Books
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