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Quotes About Manipulation

I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.
~ Richard Rossi
Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.
~ Richelle Mead
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
~ Joseph Goebbels
There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
~ Joseph Goebbels
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
~ Unknown
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
~ Voltaire
During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
~ Joseph Goebbels
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
~ William Randolph Hearst
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
~ Henry Kissinger
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
~ H. L. Mencken
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
~ James Wolcott
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~ George Orwell
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
~ William Colby
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
~ George Orwell, 1984
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
All war is based on deception.
~ Sun Tzu
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.
~ Michael Parenti
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
~ Sun Tzu
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .
~ Hermann Goring
It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.
~ Julius Streicher
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
~ Adolf Hitler
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.
~ William Shakespeare