Quotes About Manipulation

Only five percent of the people need to be organized in this fashion to install a fascist dictator in the United States. That is the ultimate objective of the greatest covert operation ever, the one in which the oligarchs steal everything you own.

What they really mean is that "numbers can be used to confuse people, especially the gullible ones lacking basic skills with numbers." With this, I completely agree,

Control of the future is actually a (vain) attempt to control people, with the future as our instrument.

This is one of the oldest tricks in the book for sinful leaders: once you get into power, take whatever you can from the people, but all in the name of a higher good. This higher good may be God, or patriotism, or humanistic brotherhood, or democracy, but what all such power-abusers really want is more power for themselves.

Each one writes history according to his convenience.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

As long as you and I allow others to program us in a way that fits their choosing, we are, without a doubt, out of control, captive to the whims of some unknown destiny, not quite recognizing that what hangs in the balance is the fulfillment of our own futures.

Man is primarily a delusional and a deceitful species. He fabricates, alters, invents, and puts forth as fact what is frequently applied only to fiction.

Corruption, my boy, makes the world go round.

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

Conning the conmen is one of life's most satisfying pleasures.

Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.

The local TV news is the greatest danger in your life. It's all crap.

I used my intuition like a weapon; whatever insecurity and weakness I sensed in him, I exploited.

Another student said his teacher had deliberately ruined his students' eyesight by making them read a lot, so they could not join the Liberation Army. Still

Many friends have asked me why, after all I went through, I did not hate Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution in those years. The answer is simple: We were all brainwashed. To us Chairman Mao was God. He controlled everything we read, everything we heard, and everything we learned in school. We believed everything he said. Naturally, we knew only good things about Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution. Anything bad had to be the fault of others. Mao was blameless.

We finally learned that the whole Cultural Revolution had been part of a power struggle at the highest levels of the Party. Our leader had taken advantage of our trust and loyalty to manipulate the whole country. This

Tears make you the villain and the unfeeling one, regardless of what you feel, simply because you can't produce them yourself. And whatever they say, I know women use them to get their own way:

Maybe I should have known better, but I was a girl, and longing for someone to want me, so back then, the force of his personality, how much he wanted me, was new to me, was the trick and the power; it was dazzling.