#group

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#sociology #paradox

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind. ↗

— Edward L. Bernays

#manipulation #mind-control #psychology #business

A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.' ↗

— Hank Azaria

#another #bunch #class #doing #go

There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#buying #comfort #cost #countries #groups

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#after #age #alone #another #because

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ↗

— Freda Adler

#chooses #crime #ethical #group #philosophical

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ↗

— Fred Allen

#decide #done #group #individually #meet

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them? ↗

— Tori Amos

#games #go #good #groups #haven

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#beyond #core #group #having #how

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#bad #bad review #bleed #close #copiously