Political Control Quotes

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

There are a lot of ways to practice the art of journalism, and one of them is to use your art like a hammer to destroy the right people — who are almost always your enemies, for one reason or another, and who usually deserve to be crippled, because they are wrong. This is a dangerous notion, and very few professional journalists will endorse it — calling it "vengeful" and "primitive" and "perverse" regardless of how often they might do the same thing themselves. "That kind of stuff is opinion," they say, "and the reader is cheated if it's not labelled as opinion." Well, maybe so. Maybe Tom Paine cheated his readers and Mark Twain was a devious fraud with no morals at all who used journalism for his own foul ends. And maybe H. L. Mencken should have been locked up for trying to pass off his opinions on gullible readers and normal "objective journalism." Mencken understood that politics — as used in journalism — was the art of controlling his environment, and he made no apologies for it. In my case, using what politely might be called "advocacy journalism," I've used reporting as a weapon to affect political situations that bear down on my environment.

Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad..

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of it's powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.

Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.

I was Chairman Mao's dog. I bit whomever he asked me to bite.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

We shouldn’t use fear for political purposes—scaring people to death so that they will vote for you or scaring people to date so that we can create a terror-industrial complex.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear--kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

To a certain extent, all dictatorships are alike. From Stalin's Soviet Union to Mao's China, from Ceauşescu's Romania to Saddam Hussein's Iraq, all these regimes had the same trappings ... But Kim Il-sung took the cult of personality to a new level. What distinguished him in the rogues' gallery of twentieth-century dictators was his ability to harness the power of faith. Kim Il-sung understood the power of religion.

That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.

The German has not the slightest notion how a people must be misled if the adherence of the masses is sought.

The landed men are the true owners of our political vessel, the moneyed men are no more than passengers in it.

Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

In a global and totalitarian war, intelligence must be global and totalitarian.

The reality is, the Republicans in Massachusetts are irrelevant and they're in collusion with the Democrats.

If you can't control these rumheads when you're their candidate, how the hell do you expect to control them if you become President?