Quotes About Manipulation

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

She grinned, looking for all the world like a sticky-mouthed little girl who had just convinced her gullible mother that she really did drop the first piece of candy into the storm drain and would need another.

Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa

Men are children," my mother instructed me. To her they always seemed pitiable, easily manipulated creatures, good for sex, to be sure, but in important matters not to be counted on.

Madame Merle says, "I don't pretend to know what people are meant for. . . . I only know what I can do with them.

People who like to remove food from other people's lips never want to feed the people afterwards. It's the same for those who want other people to give up on their dreams to please them or fit their needs, they never have a better dream to offer.

Backstage controls the show, not the audience."

The difference between the scarecrow and the mannequin is that they both don't know they are being used by others.

The happiness of a mannequin is to be in a shop window."

The lie comes first because it doesn't care about the truth."

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

Die Massen in Bewegung zu setzen braucht's nur der Phrase eines Dummkopfs. Wie lange Zeit braucht der kluge Mann, um nur einen einzigen zu seiner Meinung zu bekehren!

Üstelik, sana bir y???n söz söyleyerek, senin ve ya?am?n?n, ailenin ve çocuklar?n?n birer hiç oldu?unu anlat?yorlar; aptal, köleli?e elveri?li ve ba?kalar?n?n kullanaca?? birer insan oldu?unuzu söylüyorlar, insan?n size diledi?i i?lemi uygulayaca??n? hayk?r?yorlar. Size "ki?isel özgürlük" de?il "ulusal özgürlük" vaat ediyorlar.

Tepetaklak duruyorsun, her ?eyi tersten görüyorsun; böyle durmakla, özgürlük türküsünün e?li?inde dans etti?ini san?yorsun. Gördü?ün bu karabasandan uyanacaks?n küçük adam ve göreceksin ki, yata??ndan yuvarlanm??, çaresizlik içinde yerde yatmaktas?n. Çünkü sana bir ?ey verenden çal?yor, seni soyana bir ?eyler veriyorsun.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

you can't fool all the people all the time," but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

If the content of a screen saver on an irrelevant computer can affect your willingness to help strangers without your being aware of it, how free are you?

reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. But

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian

Furthermore, merely thinking about stabbing a coworker in the back leaves people more inclined to buy soap, disinfectant, or detergent than batteries, juice, or candy bars.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

manipulations that increase cognitive ease (priming, a clear font, pre-exposing words) all increase the tendency to see the words as linked.

beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.