Quotes About Manipulation

Aristippus urges us to actively manipulate what is in front of us in order to maximize our pleasure. Man is the architect of his own pleasure dome.

Whereas Epicurus would have us rein in our desires and aspirations so that we can get the most pleasure out of what is right in front of us, Aristippus urges us to actively manipulate what is in front of us in order to maximize our pleasure.

El encierro de la verdad es cómplice de la mentira.

Our president understands that he who controls history controls the future. - Sergei Korovin

She was also a gifted liar who had never been saddled with a cumbersome moral compass.

A nuclear bomb can only be dropped once. But money can be wielded every day with no fallout and no threat of mutually assured destruction.

I've always found it best to avoid the truth. It invariably leads to unnecessary complications. - Gabriel Allon

Führer, a lie is the truth, only backward.

the organs of Russian state security rarely murder someone without a plan to cast the blame on someone else.

Daniel Silva

RT, Russia's English-language network. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Two Minutes Hate.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German.

by knowing someone's needs and doing them a favor, you own them. You will be able to get them to do a lot more for you, further down the line, when you need them to.

Hearst knew that in war propaganda, it is not crucial whether something is true or not. What matters is that it is constantly repeated and communicated to the population through many media outlets.

Intense propaganda and constant repetition kept the population on course for war.

There will always be a way getting involved to make profit at everybodys expense.

how he gathered every morsel for later use as ammunition. His skill in this was impressive; he might not even be paying attention, and still, somehow, he absorbed details she shared. The most mundane, irrelevant facts were corrupted in his grip.

Kad se jedna laž ponavlja dugo, narod po?inje da veruje.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

What if the real threat posed to society and democracy is not actually posed by the other side? What if the real danger is posed by political and media elites who try to get us to think that we'd be better off without the other side and who use these divisions for their own personal, financial, political benefit?

Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.

Authority figures do that to me… Put someone slightly taller than me in a hat and I'll do whatever they ask.

Their [politicians] fiction mechanisms are immune to trauma.