Quotes About Manipulation

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

Even Stalin proclaimed his love for democracy. We do not learn about the nature of systems of power by listening to their rhetoric.

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

Men like that — when they know they won't be found out — they will do anything.

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

Democrats can give us wars, you know? Democrats can play the false patriotism card.

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.