“Education aims at independence of judgment. Propaganda offers ready-made opinions for the unthinking herd.”

— Everett Dean Martin

Source: Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929), p. 145

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1880–1941

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