Manipulation Quotes

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant" "The best way to get information from people is to make them think you already know it" "He who wishes to deceive will never fail to find willing dupes." "See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence." "The devil can cite scripture for his purpose." "Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver" "Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. " "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." "We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them." "The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." "Intellectuals may like to imagine themselves as people who speak truth to power, but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power" "The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion" "Once again, we hear that familiar call for bipartisanship—when it’s really just a means of diverting attention from the fact that they’re demanding we bow to their values and give them power."