Quotes About Manipulation

She claimed that she was in the service of the workers, and yet, from her room in a house full of books and with a view of the sea, she wanted to command you, she wanted to tell you what you should do with your work, she decided for you, she had the solution ready even if you ended up in the street.

Palabras, con ellas se hace y se deshace a voluntad.

Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.

D]amit das Kind den Weg durch Intrigen auch findet, schlägt sie an jeder Ecke Wegweiser in den Boden und Erika gleich mit, wenn diese nicht üben will.

Hungarian men are very interesting. They know how to say what you want to hear. They are very clever. But they do not mean these words. Five or six months later, when it is enough, then they will say the really awful things." Those words, "when it is enough," stayed with me for a long time.

personal privacy. That debate, a quaint twentieth-century one, is just ignorant background noise: the right to privacy is gone, lost already, or at least so compromised it's really worthless. No, the real present and future threat is manipulation, the inculcation of prescribed attitudes and modes of behavior into an unwitting citizenry, the unseen shift by the state from monitoring to control, the last chapter of the long tale of democracy, free will deformed into willing compliance.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them.

Unscrupulous leaders can manipulate this mechanism in whole populations. Adolf Hitler, for example, repeatedly described the Jews as Untermenschen (subhumans) and through the skilful use of propaganda was able to induce enough Germans to project their shadow on to them as to make the Holocaust possible. The

He'd dethroned the king, married the princess, and taken over the kingdom. Did he really expect me to believe he'd done so ingenuously, blundering forward with a heart full of the best intentions? I think he did. What was more, in that moment at least, he seemed to believe it himself.

Naturally, nobody mentioned his infidelities, his treachery, his tendency toward domination and humiliation, his utterly mercenary approach to most art, his yelling, his firing people on a whim, his inability to or lack of desire to recognize the inner lives of others, his avarice, his all-around tendency to make

Ordinary hypocrites pretend to be doves; political and literary hypocrites pretend to be eagles. But don't be disconcerted by their aquiline appearance. They are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.

A brigand can also be portrayed publicly as a legend and those who don't understand their game plan easily extend the supporting hand to them.

A clever way often for a person to get the biggest footage in a tv show is to say that he wants to hug the contestant by coming up over the stage.

A crafty wolf does not mind to find the support from the cunning foxes and rather enjoys only.

A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fools.

A foolish guy easily falls into the love trap of a selfish gal.

A foolish person pleases oneself with the support extended or praise offered by the people who are either sycophants or stupids.

A liar has to hire the bluffers to build the crowd and make them raise slogan and clap loud in the favour of his speech and seeing all this, the duffers join them as his supporters.

A person does not have to contest in an election to be a politician because there are many people who can play easily dirty politics in others life even without getting selection through a poll.

A person should not be so duffer to get carried away as supporter to the preaching words of the self-seekers who ask always the people to love themselves.

A person who articulates stories or generates pictures to evoke or provoke human emotion to secretly do either a product promotion or gain self publicity is the worst to trust by the people.

A person who can actually understand and identify the people who often deceive and bluff , even slight indication is enough; but those whose mind is empty or heart is dirty, it is not only tough but impossible to convince them as even the foolproof evidence against the liar/sweet talker is trashed by them as worthless stuff.

A person who can visualize could realize that most people have ears that can't/don't hear the brutal truth, have heads without mind that can't/don't find the ground reality and have eyes that can't/don't see the widespread lies. Because of these duffers, sincere & nice person suffers while bluffers/bootlickers rise in every walks of life and even without deserving get high positions & big awards/prize.