Quotes About Manipulation

Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts.

The trick to negotiation was to hold all the cards going in and, even if you didn't, to try to look as though you did.

Good man, Foaly." He grinned. "Hit that backstabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.

Nobody ever got rich by wearing a heart on their sleeve, unless it was someone else's heart.

Der Trick bei Verhandlungen bestand darin, von Anfang an alle Karten in der Hand zu haben oder zumindest so auszusehen, als ob dem so wäre.

Butler tilted the clone's head back, pinched its nose

Opal Koboi does not make plans; she writes operas.

Really, Commander. Holly—Captain Short is only here because I tricked her.

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

People find particular things, however, frightening; and it's when someone is able to threaten or entice us with those that the man himself becomes frightening.

More history than ever is today being revised or invented by people who do not want the real past, but only a past that suits their purpose. Today is the great age of historical mythology. The defence of history by its professionals is today more urgent in politics than ever. We are needed.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

when a lie is repeated enough it becomes the truth!

Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp.

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.

Non è necessario picchiare le donne se si riesce a farle sentire in colpa.

En amour, on appelle ça un étalon; en politique, un démagogue. Le secret de la réussite, c'est de ne penser qu'à la jouissance de l'autre.

Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.