Russell | Our education system produces young people able to read, but for the most part unable to weigh evidence or form an independent opinion. They’re then assailed, throughout their lives, by statements designed to make them believe all sorts of absurd propositions... 1/3

2/3 The art of propaganda, as practised by modern politicians and governments, is derived from the art of advertisement. The science of psychology owes a great deal to advertisers.

3/3 In former days most psychologists would probably have thought that a man could not convince many people of the excellence of his own wares by merely stating emphatically that they were excellent. Experience shows, however, that they were mistaken in this.