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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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"The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received."
"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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"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."
"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship."
"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."
"My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel."
"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."
"In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook."
"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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