Mark Twain Quotes

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

There's a perennial debate about whether the propagandistic tripe produced by establishment media outlets is shaped more by evil or by stupidity. Personally, I think it's both: a healthy dose of each is needed. The system design is malicious, while those who serve as its public face are generally vacant.

Politicians are becoming mouthpieces for other forces justifying the status quo.

The delusion of the people is necessary to the dominant party. I see the extent to which that delusion has been already carried, and I see there is no length to which it may not be pushed by a party in possession of the revenues and the legal authorities of the United States

Trump, in the crinkling of an eye, senses better than anyone the insecurity of people, that nobody knows whether anything is good or bad until they are told, and he is quite willing to tell them immediately.

The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.

In the 16th century, [Niccolò] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote a slim volume called The Prince. In that book he showed the powers that be how to control the people. That book is a statement: separate and rule, divide and conquer. That's five hundred years ago and it still works, because we allow ourselves to be lead around with holes through our noses.

I'm Machiavelli's offspring, I'm the king of New York, king of the coast, one hand, I juggle them both.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

The sharp employ the sharp.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

He [Jack Kemp] is dumber than he looks and even more two faced than I depict him!

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

In conspiracies, men who know what they wanted commonly ended by controlling the men who did not.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

Anyone who gets to the top in politics is a control freak.

I do not wish to see men of culture asking to be entrusted with power