Quotes About Manipulation

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us.

The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.

I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society's evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number.

Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Politicians use economics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination. —variation on a theme of Andrew Lang (1910)

There are far more cases in which politicians knew what they wanted to do, and then just leaned on economics—sometimes very bad economics—for support.

All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.

T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties.

Beware of flatterers, especially when they come preaching hatred.

The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.

The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda.

The youth is poisoned by systematic lies.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.