Quotes About Manipulation

governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They re-create the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him.

Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely." "That's

When religion and politics ride the same cart, when that cart is driven by a living holy man (baraka), nothing can stand in their path.

What religion and self-interest cannot hide, governments can, Edric said.

When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.

Feints within feints within feints.

The Harkonnens discouraged investigation of the spice, didn't they?

The Fremen are civil, educated and ignorant," Scytale said. "They're not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Given the right lever you can move a planet.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. —WORDS OF AN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER

She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late." Paul

Not at all, Lady Fenring said. She turned, looking up at the tiers around them. And the Baron noted the line of her neck- a truly lovely flowing of muscles- like a young boy's.

Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

There is enough water! But Kynes doesn't wish it to be known.

The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

Evidence! What is evidence except those things you are allowed to perceive? That's what Law tries to control: carefully managed reality.

Behavioral engineering in all of its manifestations always degenerates into merciless manipulation. It reduces all (manipulators and manipulated alike) to a deadly mass effect. The central assumption, that manipulation of individual personalities can achieve uniform behavioral responses, has been exposed as a lie by many species but never with more telling effect than by the Gowachin on Dosadi. — The Dosadi Papers, BuSab reference

trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Paul raised his voice: Observe her, comrades! This is a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother, patient in a patient cause. She could wait with her sisters -- ninety generations for the proper combination of genes and environment to produce the one person their schemes required. Observe her! She knows now that the ninety generations have produced that person. Here I stand . . . but . . . I . . . will . . . never . . . do . . . her . . . bidding!

Only the puppet masters were important. How the puppets moved—that told you what the puppet masters were doing.

Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd! Do it or I'll help her dismember you! Can't you see the worth of this woman?

He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.