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“Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda - not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all others, but at least a partial one: Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals, psychologically unified through psychological manipulations and incorporated in an organization.”

“The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.”

Interest Groups Method Tyrants Coerce

Book:In Defence of Politics

Source: In Defence of Politics

“Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.”

“Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between our world and Communism, the temptation to imitate totalitarian security methods must be resisted day by day... When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.”

World Wisdom Politics Individual Struggle Economy Rights Groups Security Method Bills Temptation Communism Liberalism Subtle Our World Heritage Bill Of Rights Erode

Author:Earl Warren

“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Looks Different War Use Problem Government Running Views Groups Goes On Conflict Taxes Method Invention Superiors Warfare Different Views

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“... I think we should never underestimate the power of women's threats. If you have ever faced an angry group of women, you know that it makes one very nervous. How can we get groups of women to act in such ways as to make corporations nervous? I should like us to use this method sparingly; but it can be used.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Should Use Used Groups Method Angry Threat Nervous Corporations Underestimate Never Underestimate

Author:Juanita M. Kreps

“The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.”

Facts Groups Information Objects Expression Method Discussion Suitable Large Groups

Author:Francis Galton

“Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.”

People Writing Trying Ends Groups Advantage Method Sentences Collaboration Efficient Things In Life

Author:Scott Adams

“Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.”

May Today Process Groups Effects Method Profound Alliances Medication Psychotherapy

Author:Leston Havens

“The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.”

Important Christian Church Groups Messages Method

Book:The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent

Source: The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent