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Quotes About Manipulation

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
~ H. L. Mencken
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
~ John Quincy Adams
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.
~ Edward L. Bernays
...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.
~ Anthony Burgess
Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.
~ Charley Reese
All governments are lying cocksuckers.
~ Bill Hicks
Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.
~ John C. Calhoun
A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
~ William Henry Harrison
For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it
~ William J. Clinton
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
~ Virginia Foxx
If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.
~ Robert Higgs
Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?
~ Assata Shakur
The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive
~ Stefan Molyneux
The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.
~ John Pilger
Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents
~ Dennis Prager
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
~ James Bovard
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
~ Carroll Quigley