Quote by Edward Bernays

Ours must be a leadership democracy administered by the intelligent minority who know how to regiment and guide the masses.

Is this government by propaganda? Call it, if you prefer, government by education. But education, in the academic sense of the word, is not sufficient. It must be enlightened expert propaganda through the creation of circumstances, through the high-spotting of significant events, and the dramatization of important issues. The statesman of the future will thus be enabled to focus the public mind on crucial points of policy and regiment a vast, heterogeneous mass of voters to clear understanding and intelligent action.
Author: Edward Bernays, Source: Propaganda, p. 127-8Saved by cboyack in politics government education propaganda leader circumstance democracy manipulation 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]

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