This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In thi… - Edward Bernays

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

Who are the men, who, without our realizing it, give us our ideas, tell us whom to admire and whom to despise, what to believe about the ownership of public utilities .. about immigration who tell us how our houses should be designed, what furniture we should put into them, what menus we should serve at our table, what kind of shirts we must wear, what sports we should indulge in, what plays we should see, what charities we should support, what pictures we should admire, what slang we should affect, what jokes we should laugh at?

It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.