Quotes About Manipulation

The thief's widow had turned him, before she married him, into a thief of a stupid and terrible kind, because she had made him rob himself.

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truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case;

Here's a great lie, thinks the Grandee of Jahilia drifting into sleep: the pen is mightier than the sword.

un país donde la verdad es lo que se le dice que sea, la realidad, de forma absolutamente literal, deja de existir, de forma que todo resulta posible salvo lo que se nos dice que es real;

People lie so that others will form beliefs that are not true. The more consequential the beliefs—that is, the more a person's well-being demands a correct understanding of the world or of other people's opinions—the more consequential the lie.

Given the right experimental manipulations, people can be led to believe that they consciously intended an action when they neither chose it nor had control over their movements.

A puppet is free so long as he loves his strings

Every person is a puppet who didn't pick his own strings and those strings reach back to the big bang.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

This guy is such an obvious cheater that once when he had a hole in one he wrote down zero on his scorecard.

Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.

The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.

Why yes, I can, ' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.

It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.