Quotes about mass manipulation

"Totalitarian regimes are "demotic" in the sense that they claim to reflect the will of the people,... without giving the people any voice in political decisions. The surrogates are of two kinds: sham "elections", in which the ruling party routinely wins nine-tenths or more of the votes; and grandiose spectacles that create the illusion of mass involvement." from Russia under the Bolshevik Regime.

"French soliologist Gustave Le Bon, who ascribed to crowds a distince collective personality that made them a willing object of psychic manipulation" La Psycholgia des foules

"No one excelled the Nazis in these productions. Using the latest techniques of cinema and stage, the mesmerized Germans by rallies and pagan rituals that conveyed to participants and onlookers alike the impression of an elemental force which nothing could stop." from Russia under the Bolshevik Regime.

Lenin's method is to convince through compulsion. The hypnotist, demagogue subordinates the will of the object to his own will- herein lies compulsion. But the subject is convinced that he is acting out of his own free will. The tie between Lenin and the masses is literally of the same nature...Exaclty the same picture is provided by Italian Facism" (Russian socialist Ekaterina Kuslova)