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. ↗

— John Grierson

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The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs. ↗

— John Grierson

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

— John Grierson

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And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. ↗

— John Grierson

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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. ↗

— John Grierson

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In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook. ↗

— John Grierson

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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. ↗

— John Grierson

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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. ↗

— John Grierson

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The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received. ↗

— John Grierson

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

— John Grierson

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