Quotes About Manipulation

Cuando religión y política viajan en el mismo carro, los viajeros piensan que nada podrá detenerles en su camino... Su movimiento es acelerado… rápido y más rápido. Dejan a un lado todos los obstáculos, y no piensan que un precipicio se descubre siempre demasiado tarde.

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.

If you put away those who report accurately, you'll keep only those who know what you want to hear," Jessica

The people who can destroy a thing, they control it

The voice was baritone and with exquisite control. It managed to dismiss him while greeting him.

So you know how to make a democracy do whatever you want." A gloating expression. "The technique is quite subtle but easy. You create a system where most people are dissatisfied, vaguely or deeply.

We mustn't run short of filmbase,' the Duke said. 'Else, how could we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?

Hydraulic despotism: central control of an essential energy such as water, electricity, fuel, medicines, melange. . . Obey the central controlling power or the energy is shut off and you die!

Behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.

Power attracts the corruptible.

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. —LETO II, HIS VOICE, FROM DAR-ES-BALAT

What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Tone of voice and attitude alone can subjugate another's will.

Los historiadores ejercen un gran poder, y algunos de ellos lo saben. Recrean el pasado, cambiándolo para que encaje con sus propias interpretaciones. De este modo, cambian también el futuro.

Povjesni?ari imaju veliku mo?, a neki od njih to i znaju. Oni ponovno stvaraju prošlost, mijenjaju?i je kako bi odgovarala njihovim vlastitim tuma?enjima. Pa tako mijenjaju i budu?nost.

Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.

But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school—to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind the parents to what was happening to their children. It was no small task.

Former police chief of Houston once said of me: "Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification.

A con artist's only weapon is his brain.

I make you believe that I am racist ... so you wouldn't suspect that I had sex with your best friend.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Schools train you to be ignorant with style [...] they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're going to be alright [...] So I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming up.

behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.