John Grierson Quotes & Sayings
16 most famous John Grierson quotes and sayings (director). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.”
“When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.”
“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.”
“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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