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“When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.”
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John Grierson
#Manipulation Quotes
#Done Quotes
#May Quotes
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“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.”
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John Grierson
Source : John Grierson, Ian Lockerbie, John Grierson Archive (1990). “Eyes of democracy”, Grierson Archive
#Philosophy Quotes
#School Quotes
#Pursuit Of Happiness Quotes
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“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.”
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John Grierson
#Loss Quotes
#Views Quotes
#Would Be Quotes
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“In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.”
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John Grierson
#Facts Quotes
#Individual Quotes
#Outlook Quotes
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“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.”
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John Grierson
#Drama Quotes
#Exotic Quotes
#Earth Quotes
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“And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.”
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John Grierson
#Art Quotes
#Powerful Quotes
#Information Quotes
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“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.”
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John Grierson
#Two Quotes
#Important Quotes
#Opinion Quotes
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“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.”
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John Grierson
#Leadership Quotes
#Appreciation Quotes
#Creative Quotes
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“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.”
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John Grierson
Source : John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.207, Univ of California Press
#People Quotes
#Political Quotes
#Matter Quotes
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“We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.”
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John Grierson
Source : John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.193, Univ of California Press
#Adventure Quotes
#Funny Travel Quotes
#States Quotes
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“The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.”
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John Grierson
#Lying Quotes
#Heart Quotes
#Paradox Quotes
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“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.”
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John Grierson
#Training Quotes
#World Quotes
#Lines Quotes
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