Greg Gutfeld Quotes

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

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

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

Politics is the business of managing perceptions.

Whoever is in charge thinks the system is just great.

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

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

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.

The most political decision you make is where you direct people's eyes. In other words, what you show people, day in and day out, is political...And the most politically indoctrinating thing you can do to a human being is to show him, every day, that there can be no change.

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, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

Even talking about change can be threatening to entrenched interests...Careers in the Pentagon, the board room, or the halls of Congress are not advanced by creating the disruptions that go with real change, so there are very few voices willing to speak up for the future and move beyond rhetoric to make serious choices.

The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.

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