John Grierson quotes

When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done. (John Grierson)
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. View quote
John Grierson
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. View quote
John Grierson
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. View quote
John Grierson
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. View quote
John Grierson
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. View quote
John Grierson
In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook. View quote
John Grierson
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. View quote
John Grierson
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. View quote
John Grierson
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. View quote
John Grierson
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. (John Grierson)
We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure. View quote
John Grierson
The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs. View quote
John Grierson