Quotes About Manipulation

He smiled. 'Now I have you in a cage.And whenever I want you,I'll take you out, and when I've done with you, I'll set you back in.

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them

Liars are exhausting people.

People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct a propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event. Access to the real environment must be limited, before anyone can create a pseudo-environment that he thinks wise or desirable.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible.

The public must be put in its place [...] so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

The General Staff of an army in the field is so placed that within wide limits it can control what the public will perceive. It controls the selection of correspondents who go to the front, controls their movements at the front, reads and censors their messages from the front, and operates the wires.

That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. The creation of consent is not a new art. It is a very old one which was supposed to have died out with the appearance of democracy. But it has not died out.

By putting the dead Germans in the focus of the picture, and by omitting to mention the French dead, a very special view of the battle was built up. It was a view designed to neutralize the effects of German territorial advances and the impression of power which the persistence of the offensive was making.

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

Algunas personas, cuando le dicen al otro que ya no lo quieren, aprovechan para lavarse las manos: «¡Te dejo porque no te amo y tú tienes la culpa!». Doble golpe. Como quien dice, es hacer leña del árbol caído

De alguna manera, los individuos ventajosos y desconsiderados detectan a los mansos/dependientes, los desnudan en la relación cara a cara, los descubren en la mirada huidiza, en el tono de voz apagado, la postura tensa, los gestos conciliadores, los circunloquios, las disculpas y la amabilidad excesiva. Los ubican, los ponen en la mira y atacan. Insisto, la idea no es crear un estilo prevenido y dejar de creer en la humanidad, sino adoptar un actitud previsora.

Juan podría haber utilizado el disco rayado, que consiste en repetir la misma frase, una y otra vez, hasta que la persona que intenta manipularnos se canse. Por ejemplo, si alguien quisiera venderle una aspiradora que usted no necesita, podría convertirse en un buen disco rayado, diciendo: "No gracias, no la necesito", "No gracias, no la necesito", las veces que sean necesarias hasta que el vendedor comprenda que usted es un caso perdido.

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!

When you see someone groveling before another man, or flattering him contrary to his own opinion, you can confidently say he is not free.

A cunning politician often lurks under the clerical robe; things spiritual and things temporal are strangely jumbled together, like drugs on an apothecary's shelf; and instead of a peaceful sermon, the simple seeker after righteousness has often a political pamphlet thrust down his throat, labeled with a pious text from Scripture.

Religion survives by telling us we need to fall in line or some horrible fate will befall us.

Many serial killers are pathological liars." ~Dr. Jack. Levin, Criminologist, Northeastern University, 2012