Quotations on Verbal Manipulation

[Alex Linder]

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”

Philip K. Dick quotes (American Writer, 1928-1982)

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/reality_is_that_which-when_you_stop_believing_in/11754.html

[Alex Linder]

Philip Dick's main concern, one of two, is, what is reality?

http://vnnforum.com/showthread.php?p=1058548#post1058548

[Alex Linder]

The two basic topics which fascinate me are "What is reality?" and "What constitutes the authentic human being?" Over the twenty-seven years in which I have published novels and stories I have investigated these two interrelated topics over and over again. I consider them important topics. What are we? What is it which surrounds us, that we call the not-me, or the empirical or phenomenal world?