John Grierson Quotes

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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The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

paradox truth

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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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.

rights wrongs thetimes time

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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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.

philosophy happiness

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

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