Quotes About Manipulation

Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil

I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.

The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

La politique n'est pas, comme on veut absolument le faire croire, l'art de conduire l'opinion publique, mais bien la façon dont les chefs s'inclinent en esclaves devant les courants qu'eux-mêmes ont créés et orientés.

It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to simulate alarm or indignation. She must be brought to consent by urgent pleading, by lies, adjurations, and promises. I know that only professional prostitutes are accustomed to answer such an invitation with a perfectly frank assent -- prostitutes, or simple-minded, immature girls.

Z.B: Hannah Arendt observó que el verdadero genio entre los seductores nazis era Himmler, que organizó a las masas en un sistema de dominación total, gracias a su (correcta!) suposición de que en su gran mayoría los hombres no son vampiros o sádicos, sino empleados y miembros de una familia.

Cuando las autoridades son muchas, tienden a cancelarse entre sí, y la única autoridad efectiva es la de quien debe elegir entre ellas (...) las autoridades ya no mandan, sino que intentan congraciarse con los electores por medio de la tentación y la seducción.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

Once he'd realized how the t'landa Til ability could be utilized, it had been a simple matter for Aruk to make up some doctrine, compose a few hymns, and write several chants and litanies. And that was all it took to produce a "religion" that credulous fools belonging to inferior species could embrace.