Quotes About Manipulation

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

There are no true friends in politics.

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.