Quotes About Manipulation

Danglers alone was content and joyous, he had got rid of an enemy and preserved his situation on board the Pharaon; Danglers was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an ink-stand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction, and he estimated the life of a man as less precious than a figure, when that figure could increase, and that life would diminish, the total of the amount.

En politique, mon cher, vous le savez comme moi, il n'y a pas d'hommes, mais des idées ; pas de sentiments, mais des intérêts ; en politique, on ne tue pas un homme : on supprime un obstacle, voilà tout.

You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all.

Grammar is politics by other means.

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.

Some people are just like that, Abigail. If it's good for them, then it's good. If it's bad for them, then it's bad. They rearrange morality to suit their ambitions. Nat simply

rearranges the truth so that people will like

experts in my field have acknowledged that the need to have control over another human being was an example of abuse.

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

But feelings aren't like thoughts, they can't be changed at will.

Race persists because it continues to be politically useful.

Technology favors horrible people.

When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.

when an audience's emotions are engaged, that audience is more vulnerable to suggestion

But since finding my grandfather's journal, I've done a little research on the period. Anyway, Hitler believed that the bigger the lie, the more audacious, the more likely it was to be believed. Because who'd imagine someone would have the nerve to spread such a colossal lie? And the more such a lie was repeated, the more likely it would be accepted as truth.

Politics, noun: [Poly 'many' + tics 'blood-sucking parasites']" ?—Larry Hardiman

The mother of all fake news. You may have seen fake news before, but nothing like what I'm on the verge of perfecting. Soon, I'll be able to make videos showing sweet little Paigey here kicking puppies to death. Or screwing a roomful of tattooed bikers. Or praising Hitler. And the videos will look so real—so perfect—a forensic scientist will vouch for their authenticity. And seeing is believing. The potency of this tool will be astonishing.

Anyway, Hitler believed that the bigger the lie, the more audacious, the more likely it was to be believed. Because who'd imagine someone would have the nerve to spread such a colossal lie? And the more such a lie was repeated, the more likely it would be accepted as truth." Kelly paused. "But I need to stop talking now and let you think.

Are you kidding?" said Girdler. "Politicians would sell their daughters to male prisons to hold on to power. As far as I've been able to tell, they're the lowest form of life on the planet." "Lower than pond scum?" asked Heather with a twinkle in her eye. "Comparing them to pond scum is an insult to pond scum," said Girdler emphatically.

Truth and reality had come to mean very little when compared to political correctness and political expediency.

The Dictator's Handbook, written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, and Alastair Smith,

POLITICS (noun): Poly, meaning "many" plus Tics, meaning "blood-sucking parasites." —Larry Hardiman

How many dictators and tyrants throughout history had been psychopathic? Erin suspected almost all of them.