Captain, I would think long and hard before answering. Well maybe you should. Who knows more about women than me? You humans! All you want to do is please your women, you want them to be your friends. But we Ferengi know better. Women are the enemy. And we treat them accordingly. The key is to never let them get the upper hand. If she says she doesn’t see you enough, threaten to see her even less. If she wants more gifts, take back the ones you’ve already given her. It’s all about control. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e5: Indiscretion, Quark to Sisko with Dax & Bashir
Naturally the common people don’t want war, but after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine its policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifist for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. Hermann Goering, Nuremberg trials
Someone forgot the fact that it’s not our government that gives us our freedoms, they are inalienable rights and they cannot be taken away. The people of the United States have simply been conditioned to give their rights away freely. The USA Patriot Act seems less of a tool to fight terrorism and more of an instrument to monitor and track and intimidate every-day law-abiding citizens in this country. One Nation Under Siege, 2006
Citizens deemed enemy combatants can be held indefinitely, with no charges against them, no right to see an attorney, no right to go before a judge. Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11
The Homeland Security Act which passed about a year later in November 2002 outlines in great detail the degree to which the government can now spy, listen in, record, get access to internet, library cards, bookstore records, medical records, school records ... ibid.
I got a call one day from an attorney woman I knew and she said would you like to meet one of the Rockefellers? I said, sure I’d love to. And er we [Nicholas Rockefeller] became friends, and erm, he began to divulge a lot of things to me. So he said to me one night, he said, that there’s going to be an event, Aaron. And out of that event you’re going to see we are going into Afghanistan so we can run pipelines from the Caspian Sea. We are going to go into Iraq to take the oil and establish a base in the Middle East, and we are going to go into Venezuela and then try to get rid of Chavez. And the first two they’ve accomplished – Chavez they didn’t accomplish – and er he said you’re going to see guys going into caves looking for [laughs], looking for people that they’re never going to find. You know, he was laughing about the fact that you have this War on Terror – there’s no real enemy – he is talking about how by having this War on Terror you can never win it because it’s an eternal war – and so you can always keep taking people’s liberties away. And I said, How are you going to convince people that this war is real? He said, by the media. The media can convince everybody that it’s real. I mean, you keep talking about things. You keep saying it over and over and over again and eventually people believe this. You created the Federal Reserve in 1913 through lies. You create 9/11 which is another lie. Through 9/11 then you fight a War on Terror, and now all of a sudden you go into Iraq which was another lie. And now they’re gonna do Iran. So one thing leading to another leading to another. I would say, What are you doing this for? What’s the point of this thing? You have all the money in the world you’d ever want, you have all the power. I said, you know, you are hurting people – it’s not a good thing. And he would say, what do you care about the people for? Take care of yourself and take care of your family. And then I said to him, what are the ultimate goals here? He said, the ultimate goal is to get everybody in this world chipped with an RFID chip and have all the money on those chips. And everything on those chips. And if anyone wants to protest, what we do, or violate what we want, we just turn off their chip. Aaron Russo, interview Alex Jones
In the mid-1980s I was asked by an American legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic book that would detail the murky history of the CIA from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Covering such things as the heroin smuggling during the Vietnam War, the cocaine smuggling during the war in Central America, the Kennedy assassination and other highlights.
What I learned during the frankly horrifying research that I had to slog through in order to accomplish this, was that yes, there is a conspiracy. In fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists, and ham-fisted clowns ...
The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic ... Nobody is in control. Alan Moore
It’s always for the benefit of mankind. It’s for our own good supposedly. In reality, we shouldn’t give them credence for that because that’s never been their motive. Their motive is really just raw control over human beings. G Edward Griffin, interview Alex Jones
The term New World Order means different things to different people. But to those who expect to be in control of it it means the same thing: it means all the world under their control. They believe that somebody must rule – after all, people are too damned dumb to know how to rule themselves. They figure that that’s their role. G Edward Griffin, interview Alex Jones, Invisible Empire: A New World Order & Invisible Empire
It’s a fraternity. They have a common objective ... to maintain control. Dr Larry Bates, author The New Economic Disorder
I’m opposed to all forms of control. Ayn Rand
Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. James Garfield
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. Harry Truman 1950
You see I think there are two ways of keeping people controlled: first of all, frighten people; and secondly demoralise them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern ... The top one per cent of the world’s population own 80 per cent of the world’s wealth – it’s incredible that people put up with it. But, they are poor, they are demoralised, they are frightened. Tony Benn MP, interview Michael Moore, Sicko 2007
I discovered how the immense power of the bankers and the industrialists in Britain and world-wide could be used to bring direct and indirect pressure again backed by the media, first to halt and then to reverse the policy of a Labour government that both the electors and the House of Commons had accepted. Tony Benn, Arguments for Socialism
The New Freedom Commission is a federal program to mandate the bogus screening and compulsory medication of children from infancy through eighteen years of age in this country through the use of completely inappropriate screening techniques. Any child who deviates from the prescribed feeling and thought pattern that is allowed to have them will be compulsorily medicated, even over the objection of their parents, with dangerous, unproven and untested psychiatric medications to control their thoughts, their behaviours and to impede their emotional development. This is a federally mandated program. Dr Rima Laibow, cited One Nation Under Siege
The only way you can control people is to lie to them. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them. L Ron Hubbard
And when we look at all the ice-cores that we’ve studied that’s exactly what happens – the temperature goes up and then CO2 starts pouring out of the sea, so it’s not the driver of global warming ... If you look at the real data which is the sun-spots on the sun, we are heading for thirty damned cold years ... You hear one side of the argument; you don’t hear the other side ... It is a total scam and it’s breaking very very rapidly ... It’s wonderful way of controlling and taxing people. Professor David Bellamy, Late Late Show RTC1
We know we need strict controls in a changing world. Tony Blair
Perhaps most disturbing is the suggestion that ADHD is nothing more than the invention of pharmaceutical companies who have used clinical trials to create a disease that can be treated with their drugs. Mail on Sunday article 27th November 2007, The Scandal of Kiddy Coke
This is Liam. Aged five he was disruptive, hyperactive, and unable to focus ... Now, five years later, Liam’s life has been transformed. His new-found ability to concentrate is largely due to a drug called Methylphenidate. Best known to most of us as a brand name: Ritalin ... These drugs were originally designed fifty years ago for the treatment of adults with depression. Horizon: Pill Poppers, BBC 2010
ADHD is believed to be caused by an imbalance of key chemical messengers in the areas of the brain that control attention and memory. Ritalin appears to make these messengers more effective, helping to restore attention. Like all drugs, Ritalin comes with a cost. ibid.
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinised. George Orwell, 1984
‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ ibid.