"We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.…"

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element…"

"Propaganda is a monologue that is not looking for an answer, but an echo."

"Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, h…"

"Sir Humphrey: Plays praising the government."

"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses a…"

"Jim Hacker: What are the most boring?"

"We are told, that in Turkey, when any Man is the Author of Notorious Falsehoods, it is usual to blacken the whole Fro…"

"Sir Humphrey: Plays criticising the government make the second most boring evenings ever invented."

"No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lo…"