Quotes About Manipulation

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Go back to bed America... you are free to do as we tell you... you are free to do as we tell you.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates.

Chinese central government doesn't need to even lead public opinion: it just selectively stops censorship. In other words, just as censorship is a political tool, so is the absence of censorship.

Governments don't control people like they used to.