Quotes About Manipulation

You weak-minded fool! He's using an old Jedi mind-trick.

The cigarette does the smoking — you're just the sucker.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.

Victory is a political fiction.

Divide et impera [Divide and rule].

All these men who say that the people must govern themselves, really govern the people.

So, like today, the government machine kept, as it does, the same cogs, and I can only change the hand that turns the crank.

There are no bigger GOONs than politicians.

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

If you aren't consciously aware, you're vulnerable to either being brainwashed or being influenced by forces within you that you have no awareness of at all.

It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio. —Joseph Goebbels

Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name a person or nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.

dubious means might subvert virtuous ends.

He was pleased to receive his colleague's ships, but had no serious intention of finding him his legions.

and wanted to replace Tiberius with Agrippa, and that Livia acted to defeat him.

This development has been presented as leaving Livia and her sons, Tiberius and Drusus, out in the cold.

No, far better for the queen to be persuaded to do away with herself.

The First Triumvirate proved that men with the support of the people and soldiers of Rome, lots of money, and a fair amount of nerve could disregard the ruling class and, in effect, hijack the Republic.