Quotes About Perception

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

We should view our government the way we should a friendly, cuddly lion. Just because he's friendly and cuddly shouldn't blind us to the fact that he's still got teeth and claws.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

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.

There is no such thing as a false idea.

I don't know if you have a child, but what the Chinese government want people to see is like you would want a child to see. Because every film shown in China is one that a child could see.

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

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

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.

Think well of yourself and others will too. Unless those others are in government, banking, or show business.

The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.

I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we would be considered gunslingers.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.