“Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of. In almost every act of our 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 that control the public mind.”

-Edward Bernays, Pioneer of Corporate PR and Propaganda

(via Organic Consumer Association)

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.”

- William Blake

“Love is metaphysical gravity.”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

Happy Valentine’s Day

“Failure is an option. Fear is not.”

- James Cameron

“The person you love is 72.8% water.”

- Alan Fletcher

“Practice safe design: Use a concept.”

- Petrula Vrontikis

“If you can’t love me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best.”

- Marilyn Monroe

“When you’re growing a company it’s a combination of vision — where you think the business is going — plus total opportunism, and, this may be the most important part, people. … We try and find people who are aligned philosophically but have different passions. It’s not, ‘Oh we have a client, so let’s start a company in China.’ It’s, ‘This person would be a wonderful addition to this family.’”

- Creative Director Linus Karlsson of Mother

“I think that, the media as we know it, the world that we knew 5 or 10 years ago, just does not exist any more. It’s like being in the middle of an apocalypse and a new dawn. It is just so huge what’s happening. I think it’s the wild wild west and it’s free game and who would have thought we’d pay five dollars for a coffee and get our news for free?… People just cut and paste—can you imagine if the Daily News could cut and paste off the New York Times? It’s like a joke. Pretty much what everyone’s saying is just the same thing over and over again. But my fear is that Twitter is the new American literature. Or I can only watch things on the Internet for 30 seconds, because that’s all the viewer’s going to watch on the Internet. It’s a very, very bizarre time.”

- Kelly Cutrone

(via The AWL)

“I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel.”

- Peewee Herman

The best we can ever hope for is to become so distracted by our distractions that we call them passions.

“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind”

- Dr. Seuss

“There’s more to life than just being a passenger”

- Amelia Earhart

R.I.P. DJ AM

“New york, new york. Big city of dreams, but everything in new york aint always what it seems.”

- last tweet from @DJ_AM on August 25th, 2009. quote from Grand Master Flash’s song “New York New York”