Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [181-200] of 308 Deception quotesDeception QuotesDeception Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.~ James Madison If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.~ James Madison The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.~ James Madison People may or may not say what they mean...but they always say something designed to get what they want.~ David Mamet [W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.~ George Mason Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity.~ Marshall McLuhan Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.~ Marshall McLuhan Censors are infused with the sentiment of moral indignation – a dangerous and misleading sentiment because, by blinding those who voice it to the real reasons for their indignation, it makes them puppets whose fears can be manipulated for ends and purposes they do not foresee or intend.~ Carey McWilliams The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.~ H. L. Mencken 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.~ H. L. Mencken When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before.~ H. L. Mencken The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it.~ H. L. Mencken To die for an idea: it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true.~ H. L. Mencken All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.~ H. L. Mencken Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.~ Arthur S. Miller This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.~ Sir Denison Miller Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.~ Henry Miller The government of the world was [Cecil] Rhodes' simple desire.~ Sarah Gertrude Millin Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.~ Richard Mitchell We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.~ Whitney Moore, Jr. Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print