Political Manipulation Quotes

"The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve as the instrument of their decay." "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. " "When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state" "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary"