“Readily people do not accept any ordinary to behave like an extraordinary unless and until some extraordinary but preferably wealthy approves him to be not ordinary.” PeopleAcceptingOrdinaryExtraordinaryBehaveWealthy Author:Anuj
“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.” IfsWayCertainReligionAcceptingMoralImpossibleTwentiesBehaveBreakfastEthicalAestheticTransformedPropositionsAlchemy Author:Karen Armstrong
“Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.” ThinkingWayWantActionAcceptingCommunicationProveMessagesAimAdvertisingAtmospherePropagandaBehaveExecutivesAssimilationBeholderCoca Cola Book:Boxed in: The Culture of TV Source: Boxed in: The Culture of TV
“My family brought me up to be very assimilated and accepting of everyone. But I do get frustrated when I see other Asians who behave in a way that reflects a stereotype.” WayAcceptingMy FamilyBehaveFrustratedStereotype Author:Pearl Tan