Cognitive Framing Quotes

We make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Political propaganda seeks to affect the way people perceive the world in order to affect the way they behave.

It's the frames which make some things important and some things forgotten. It's all only frames from which the content rises.

I don't just want to show how somebody might be wrong;I want to know why people believe the things they believe in the first place. I want to understand the mindset that would lead somebody toward the alt-right.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

A lot of people think that persuasion is all about values and aligning values. I largely disagree. I think persuasion generally, and political persuasion more particularly, has much more to do with explaining in new ways and connecting dots in new ways than just invoking emotions and values.

We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.

This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.

Propaganda tries to surround man by all possible routes in the realm of feelings as well as ideas, by playing on his will or on his needs, through his conscious and his unconscious, assailing him in both his private and his public life. It furnishes him with a complete system for explaining the world, and provides immediate incentives to action.

I found that if I stack the moments correctly, people will believe in the most outrageous things.

It's important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.

Suspension of disbelief is a necessary ingredient in all storytelling. So it has been with the government's narrative that it is delivering Brexit.

What information you see doesn't dictate what you think or believe. I think it's crazy to think that.

It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.