In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies – the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.

The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.

Love is the only industry which can’t operate on a five-day week.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.