Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 308 Deception quotesDeception QuotesDeception Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.~ W. Lance Bennett Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery.~ Georges Bernanos The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.~ Georges Bernanos The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.~ Edward Bernays No Gulag, evidently, can deter the advocates of state power from believing in their own virtue and in the morality of the power they exercise. We are all Hobbesians now. Virtue is presumed to reside in the state. Its reliance on compulsion is seen as fulfilling, not undermining, morality. Our communicators, oddly employed in the private sector, work tirelessly to ensure that state control is maintained, our taxes stay high, the official message is promoted. The people know, and can only know, a tiny fraction of what Leviathan does, and what they know is what these partisans tell them.~ Tom Bethel Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.~ Albert J. Beveridge An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.~ Ambrose Bierce The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.~ Ambrose Bierce Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.~ Ambrose Bierce What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS.~ Ed Biersmith The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.~ Justice Hugo L. Black More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.~ William Blake Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.~ Napoleon Bonaparte A functioning police state needs no police.~ William S. Borroughs A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.~ Kenneth Boulding For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.~ Harry Browne It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.~ Giordano Bruno No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.~ Edmund Burke The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.~ Edmund Burke We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.~ George W. Bush Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print