Beppe Grillo Quotes

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals we dare not present to them.

We've used the power that we have had to listen in to everybody so that we could better promote our agenda

One of the big themes - if not the big theme - of 'Mockingjay - Part 1' is the battle of the airwaves. I don't think teenagers really understand the role propaganda has in our lives in terms of politics, advertising, and the general manipulation of imagery.

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

It's really weird watching the government watch me.

Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.

In a democracy, as a matter of course, every effort is made to seize upon and create publick opinion, which is, substantially, securing power.

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it.

The number one rule of today's marketing – the key secret of those who seek to control your beliefs and habits in order to take your money, your votes, your time or whatever else it is they desire from you – is to always keep in mind that nobody really believes they can be manipulated.

Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re still being watched and recorded.

Those who tell us to be in touch with our own desires are often merely trying to make us believe that what we want is the thing that they are selling. […] We're used to that kind of persuasion, for political candidates as well as commercial products.

The easiest way to propagandize people is to let a propaganda theme go in through an entertainment picture when people do not realize they are being propagandized.

The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.

It's really hard not to be paranoid when you find out that you've been spied on.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

'1984,' one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In '1984,' the dictatorship was always surveilling you. Now, young people want to be surveyed. They want people to know where they are at all times.

It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.

Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance.