"The art of manipulating public opinion, which..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.”

“We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.”

“If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.”

“One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.”

“If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.”

“One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.”

“People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.”

“I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.”