Arthur Machen Quotes

Politics, so far as mobilizing support is concerned, represents the art of calculated cheating, or more precisely how to cheat without being really caught

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there's anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I've been had.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

The right can distort anything it wants.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

… the sickest political program to be conceived since television became a factor … it appeals to the prurient and prejudiced in a fashion which makes a mockery of its pretension to be speaking for moral conduct.

The investigation has shown, let us hope, privilege at its worst. The trail is one of dishonesty, greed, violation of law, secrecy, concealment, evasion, falsehood, and cunning. It is a trail of betrayals by trusted and presumably honorable men--betrayals of a government, of certain business interests and the people who trusted and honored them; it is a trail showing a flagrant degree of the exercise of political power and influence, and the power and influence of great wealth upon individuals and political parties; it is the trail of despoilers and schemers, far more dangerous to the well-being of our Nation and our democracy than all those who have been deported

Under every stone lurks a politician

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

All political power is primarily an illusion …. Mirrors and blue smoke …

It all boils down to power and money.

All power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.

All politics is a combination of rhetoric and reality.