Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Noam ChomskyTo Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.
Robert GreeneWell, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.
Adam SandlerWe are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
Vivienne WestwoodCivilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark TwainIn large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich NietzscheWe are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Winston ChurchillIf one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
Oscar WildeFor the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.
Brian EnoI like Tom Ford a lot because it’s so classic and has great quality. I wear a lot of Rag & Bone.
Tom BradyNinety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.
David ByrneTo affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David ThoreauIt is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
Nelson MandelaI wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
Lady GagaHowever happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.
Paulo CoelhoWhen our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘
Brian EnoSelf-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
John C. MaxwellThe propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous HuxleyFortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis BaconMany a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Benjamin FranklinOne Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
Will RogersIt is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFlattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund BurkeIt seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.
Joyce MeyerNo people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
James BaldwinBe a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve JobsWhat is easy is seldom excellent.
Samuel JohnsonI don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.
Vivienne WestwoodIf Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
Steven WrightThe elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
Noam ChomskyTo understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
Marcus AureliusAll the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. TrumanAdmiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich NietzscheThese people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Christopher ColumbusAs is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.
Benjamin DisraeliIf you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.
Maya AngelouAssociate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonToo many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.
Will RogersThe price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David ThoreauYou can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
George W. BushI think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.
Keanu ReevesEvery secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia WoolfHe who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon BonaparteFreedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma GandhiWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William JamesWhen I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
Jackie ChanQuality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John RuskinWhat I’m always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
Vivienne WestwoodPower is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.
Robert GreeneAll happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch SpinozaThe nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan PoeThe usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.
Douglas AdamsThe first quality that is needed is audacity.
Winston ChurchillWhen governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
Brian EnoWhen the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
PlatoThe trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
Stephen KingThe principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Noam ChomskyThe price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Desmond TutuMy father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.
Joyce Meyer