Quotes About Manipulation

Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

While claiming advocacy, what hoaxers really exhibit is self-interest. Often, this is because there is only the self to support their false claims; any revelations merely provide further opportunities for details and forgery.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

'Bigg Boss' is a game show, and everyone plays their game.

To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.

The PRI can afford to push democratization; it can afford to be generous because it has a very good chance of winning in clean elections.

My feeling is that we can genetically encode almost any kind of chemistry. We just have to learn how to do that.

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

The best confidence artist makes us feel not as if we're being taken for a ride but as if we are genuinely wonderful human beings who are acting the way wonderful human beings act and getting what we deserve.

When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.

People believe that forensics these days is the answer to everything and because we believe so ardently that forensics can lead us to the criminal we're also a bit nonplussed when someone gets in there and manipulates forensics to their advantage.

Gifts make slaves.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

'The Godfather' is a great movie, but it gives them too much credit. What you don't see is what really takes place: the in-fighting, the lying to each other, the scheming against each other to get power.

It is 2017, and we are living in the golden age of lying.

I try to look after myself, but I don't think it's a good thing to be obsessed with body image. I wouldn't want a son or daughter of mine to feel manipulated by that; it's the wrong message.

La ragion di Stato non si è mai curata di gettare una graziosa volta fra causa ed effetto. La coscienza del mondo, tanto più pigra a pensare quanto più carica di rimorsi, la stampa dei gruppi momentaneamente al potere e il cervello dei suoi lettori castrato da essa, hanno sempre girato e capito la cosa solo come occorreva a loro

El que dice superstición dice credulidad –continuó Decambrais, lanzado–. El que dice credulidad dice manipulación, y el que dice manipulación dice desastre. Ésa es la plaga que azota a la humanidad, ha producido más muertos que todas las pestes juntas.

This will be seen by the fact, that the slaveholders like to have their slaves spend those days just in such a manner as to make them as glad of their ending as of their beginning. Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation.

I have found that, to make a contented slave," writes Douglass "it is necessary to make a thoughtless one…He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.

To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.