Quotes About Manipulation

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.

I find that by some unfortunate chance I continue to want you, you jade-eyed sorceress with your wanton gold body and your calculating little mind!

She stated that the oversight of the Sperres was a very dark chapter: "The Germans threw us a bone and watched with great pleasure how the Jews fought over it among one another.

Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe.

Rufe nodded. "Oh, sure, that's CIA style. Throw up a smoke screen—bumfoozle the opposition.

What did the old man want?" "Your husband's money, just like everyone else." "But not you, eh?" Her voice was sardonic. "Not me," I said. "Money costs too much.

Now take it easy . This is a gun I have at your back. Don't you feel it?" I felt it. I took it easy.

His eyes held the confident vacancy that comes from the exercise of other people's power.

As private parts to the Gods are we, that they may play with us for their own pleasure.

Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.

The gaze of her clear eyes held them transfixed. "You must understand that when anybody, bruja or curandera, priest or sinner, tampers with the fate of a man that sometimes a chain of events is set into motion over which no one will have ultimate control. You must be willing to accept this responsibility.

The thing about pumping people for information is that you wind up telling them more than you want to in the hope of getting them to reveal what you want to know.

Scientology processing, which tended to produce subservience amounting almost to mental enslavement.

Growing up under patriarchy is a grooming process that leaves girls and women extremely vulnerable to male manipulation.

he yells, you run like the wind. That lad plays you like an old piano – and you know it.' 'But he's only four months old—' Edie nodded briskly.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

I fell on my feet and found my bearings because of these. I could talk to them. They listened and answered, for or against, but always weighing what they had heard, unlike my mother, who used language for manipulation, not to express an opinion or state a fact. What sounded like a fact might be a lie, and every opinion was tailored for the moment.

Knowledge [...] no longer consists in a manipulation of man and nature as opposite forces, nor in the reduction of data to mere statistical order, but is a means of liberating mankind from the destructive power of fear, pointing the way toward the goal of the rehabilitation of the human will and the rebirth of faith and confidence in the human person.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.