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Advertising tends to make mechanized barbarians of us all.
The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932)
The greater the industrial and political organization, the greater is the emphasis on the individual as a mere mass unit, and the smaller his importance as a single separate person.
The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932)
When we think we are most free our opinions and our behavior are being skillfully manipulated by persons operating behind the scenes.
The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932)
Individuality is a cultural achievement rather than a gift of nature. During the 19th century it was rather common for people to believe they were expressing their individuality by being "natural."
The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932)
The propagandist merely wishes you to think as he does. The educator is more modest; he is so delighted if you think at all that he is willing to let you do so in your own way.
The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932)
Do the tendencies of the present day, mass movements, social organization, publicity, public education, emphasize the unique in man, or enhance the dominance of undifferentiated man acting as mass
The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932)
In just the measure that education aims to develop the individual with independence of judgment rather than to indoctrinate him with tradition and custom and official dogma, to that degree it separates him from the mass and is successful insofar as it emancipates his mind from the tyranny of herd opinion.
The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932)
The student of social psychology ... is concerned not so much with the panaceas that may be proposed for the solution of the economic problems, but is interested rather in the possibility that under any economic system a maximum number of people should be able to grow from infantile tribal ways to self-directing maturity.
The Conflict of the Individual and the Mass in the Modern World (1932)