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Quotes About Manipulation

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.
~ Peter McWilliams
Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.
~ Rick Perry
This is a typical liberal trick, by the way: Stack the deck so the whole thing fails leaving only one option, the government to go in to save the day.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.
~ Jay Inslee
Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.
~ Volker Ullrich
A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.
~ Alain-René Lesage
The ego is the ultimate conspirator.
~ Bert McCoy
Obama's got a health care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook ... Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Nobody knows because Team Obama has conveniently arranged for you to be kept in the dark on your health insurance costs until after everyone votes next week.
~ Hugh Hewitt
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.
~ Adolf Hitler
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
~ George Orwell
If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.
~ Karl Marx
A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.
~ Alex Jones
Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
~ Karl Marx
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
~ Stanley Kubrick
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
~ John Barth
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.
~ Maynard James Keenan
The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.
~ Stuart Ewen
George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.
~ Howard Zinn
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
~ George Orwell
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
~ Noam Chomsky
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
~ Ada Louise Huxtable
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
~ Voltaire
There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.
~ Robert K. Massie