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Edward L. Bernays

Дата рождения: November 22, 1891 – Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary

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Edward L. Bernays was an Austrian American public relations pioneer whose work focused on propaganda, mass persuasion, and opinion shaping. He wrote Crystallizing Public Opinion and Propaganda, foundational texts in the field. Often called the father of public relations, he helped define modern corporate publicity, advertising, and political communications.

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Edward L. Bernays was born in Vienna in 1891 and was brought to the United States as an infant, growing up in New York in a family shaped by European intellectual life and American opportunity. A nephew of Sigmund Freud, he developed early exposure to ideas about motive, emotion, and human behavior, though his own path began more conventionally: he studied agriculture at Cornell University and graduated in 1912. His first jobs were in publishing and theatrical publicity, where he learned how attention could be created, directed, and sustained. That practical education, more than his formal degree, set the course of his career.

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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society
-Propaganda
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We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of
-Propaganda
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It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world
-Propaganda
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Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government
-Propaganda
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Human desires are the steam which makes the social machine work. Only by understanding them can the propagandist control that vast, loose-jointed mechanism which is modern society
-Propaganda
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The great enemy of any attempt to change men’s habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia
-Propaganda
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The public relations counsel is the pleader to the public of a point of view
-Crystallizing Public Opinion
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Public opinion is the aggregate result of individual opinions—now uniform, now conflicting—of the men and women who make up society or any group of society
-Crystallizing Public Opinion
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The only difference between “propaganda” and “education,” really, is in the point of view
-Crystallizing Public Opinion

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