posted on Mar, 28 2008 @ 12:09 AM
“They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.” - John Milton
"In times of universal deceit, speaking the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” - Mark Twain
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. 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." - Joseph Goebbels
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no
longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge - even to ourselves - that
we’ve been so credulous." - Carl Sagan
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings
and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had
been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world
government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination
practiced in past centuries." - David Rockefeller
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing
them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” - H. L. Mencken
"Why, of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is
to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war-- neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in
Germany. That is understood. But, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people
along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country
to danger. It works the same in any country." - Herman Goering
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” - H. L. Menken
“The great mass of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. What luck for rulers that men do not think.” - Adolf
Hitler
“When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost
anything you want, and guide them as you please.” - Gore Vidal
"Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity." - Marshall McLuhan
“The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his
country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, so what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and
vassals of rich men behind the scenes. They pull the strings and we dance.” - John Swinton, NY Times Chief of Staff
“This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing the voters
through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we
can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.” - Sir Denison Miller