<bq href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005/pinter-lecture-e.pdf" author="Harold Pinter" caption="Harold Pinter: Art, Truth & Politics" source="Nobel Prize.Org" date="December 7th, 2005">Everyone knows what happened in the Soviet Union and throughout Eastern Europe during the post-war period: the systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities, the ruthless suppression of independent thought. All this has been fully documented and verified. But my contention here is that the US crimes in the same period have only been superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged, let alone recognized as crimes at all. [...] Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it. It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.</bq> <bq href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Usual_Suspects" source="The Usual Suspects" author="Verbal">The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.</bq>