Paul Meyser, Lehman Brothers;

"We must shift America from a needs to a desire culture. People must be trained to desire. People must want new things before the old have been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality in America. Man's desire must overshadow his needs."

Edward Bernays (one of the forefathers of modern propaganda) in 1928,

"Conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in a democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of this government."

"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. "

Noam Chomsky

Referring to the bombing campaign in Afghanistan in 2001, he said,

"The squeeze will carry on until the people of the country themselves recognize that this is going to go on until they get the leadership changed."

[The deliberate targeting of civilians is a war crime under Geneva Conventions.]