Quotes About Manipulation

To bend the entire world to his will. I'm not sure how this will manifest itself, openly or behind the scenes.

Brilliant minds around the world are working to enhance the addictive properties of numerous products.

It's a false flag operation, and they've been successful.

she would say he had raped her, getting

Politics, noun: [Poly 'many' + tics 'blood-sucking parasites']" ?—Larry Hardiman "We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office." ?—Aesop "Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." ?—Gore Vidal

perfected mass-brainwashing techniques early on after extensive experimentation on their populations.

Psychopaths personified the old saying: "Sincerity: if you can fake that you've got it made.

So your drug could at least loosen the grip of a cult leader on his followers?

Hoyer looked almost amused. "In case you haven't guessed it," he continued, "Bryce Aronson isn't a psychopath. I am.

even after he had slipped a knife between your shoulder blades, you would think that this was somehow your fault.

The founding fathers had the right idea. They never envisioned professional politicians. They wanted citizen legislators, leaving their farms for a few years to serve their fellow man. A civic responsibility like jury duty. But under our current system, you almost have to be a megalomaniac to have interest in entering the sewer that is politics. And success in this realm requires that backstabbing, shamelessness, lying, and manipulation become an art form.

POLITICS (noun): Poly, meaning "many" plus Tics, meaning "blood-sucking parasites." —Larry Hardiman "I believe that any politician who comes to power, in part, through his skill in debate and public speeches, who is agile in handling questions at news conferences, with a glistening TV or radio image, has the conversational talents to be a natural liar." —Paul Ekman, Telling Lies

Sun Tzu thousands of years earlier: All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; and when far away, we must make him believe we are near.

Politics, noun: [Poly 'many' + tics 'blood-sucking parasites']

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.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Roosevelt is dead: a man who would never tell the truth when a lie would serve him just as well.

They are an American Delegation who are doing a tour of the region to apologize for the crusades', said Arafat. Then he, and his guest, burst out laughing. They both knew that America had little or no involvement in the wars of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. But Arafat, at any rate, was happy to indulge the affliction of anyone who believed they had and use it to his own political advantage.

Society is a funny thing. The rules are arbitrary and designed to maintain control of the masses.

I have found that liars in the end communicate more truth than do truth tellers." "How's that?" "Because truth is the safest lie.

If we don't truly know what something is programmed to do, chances are it is programming us. Once that happens, we may as well be machines ourselves.

Studies show that while few people are good at detecting factual lies, most of us can determine when someone is distorting, manufacturing, or withholding an emotion.

Using the eye of God technique, taped broadcasts were pitched at specific VCI members. A typical broadcast would say, "We know you, Nguyen Van Nguyen; we know where you live! We know you are a communist traitor, a lackey of Hanoi, who illegally collects taxes in Vinh Thanh Hamlet. Soon the soldiers and police are coming for you. Rally now, Nguyen Van Nguyen; rally now while there is still time!