Quotes About Manipulation

The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting.

One of the more insidious features of Trumpism is that it deliberately seeks to occupy every ounce of our attention. In doing so, it aims to force our resignation to the banality of evil and the mundaneness of cruelty.

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word "reality" in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you.

Science is the whore of industry and the handmaiden of war.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word "reality" in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you.

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons [...] who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society… We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

men are very largely actuated by motives which they conceal from themselves…It is evident that the successful propagandist must understand the true motives and not be content to accept the reasons which men give for what they do.

I soon discovered that all civility is but the mask of design.

Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

Some of them want to use youSome of them want to get used by youSome of them want to abuse youSome of them want to be abusedSweet dreams are made of thisWho am I to disagree?

98% of all statistics are made up.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.