When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

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.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

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.

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.