David Icke Quotes

Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated.

Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

In the struggle for power, propaganda is an instrument to be used by those who want to secure or retain power just as much as it is by those wanting to displace them.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

It's much easier to gain control over a mass population when you pit them against each other.

The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.

Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe.

I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

International terrorists have proved quite skilled at misleading many people about what is actually happening here in the Caucasus, and they continue to mislead people today.

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy.

The film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism... the results of German Fascism. It shows how people are prepared or indoctrinated for an ideology... people who are already in a state of repression who have been humiliated by society and who clasp at a straw that's offered to them. And how that's then developed into a form of indoctrination.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Nobody will admit to playing power games in relationships, but they do.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.