Quotes About Manipulation

You'd be surprised what people will believe. Usually, the bigger and the more improbable the lie, the more willing they are to believe it.

people will believe half-truths and distortions if they coincide with what they want to believe. If they reflect their fears.

It was a statement that was almost exclusively said by totally untrustworthy people.

was a statement that was almost exclusively said by totally untrustworthy people.

Usually, the bigger and the more improbable the lie, the more willing they are to believe it.

In his experience, when a person suggested that someone needed to be elected leader, they often had themselves in mind for the position.

Oh, it's a case of they think I'll think that they'll do A, so they'll do B because I wouldn't think they'd think of that but then because I might think I know what they're thinking they'll do A after all because I wouldn't think they'd think that way," Will said.

If I were a politician, I could prove that monkeys talk.

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

IF A SYSTEM CAN BE EXPLOITED, IT WILL BE. ANY SYSTEM CAN BE EXPLOITED. CHAPTER

Caesar is not really very interesting: Cassius is the part. I

lago to amuse the audience, especially since Othello (like Macbeth) has no sense of humour.

He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.

It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.

In the foreword of Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death, he compares the apocalyptic visions of George Orwell (1984) to those of Aldous Huxley (Brave New World). One of the comparisons speaks to the issue at hand: "In 1984 . . . people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

So what do I do when the call comes to take part in a 'reality' show? Like a gullible teenager with stars in his eyes and mush where his brain should be, I fall for it.

The sadness of evil men is that they believe no truth that does not paint the world in their colours. Eric Ambler The Schirmer Inheritance

we made all the necessary rhetorical changes to make it look like we were aligning ourselves with a burgeoning democracy...

The best game to play, he thought, is the game you don't realize you are playing.

The best game to play, is the game you don´t realize you are playing.

No se precisa un diploma en la pared para acreditar que se es perverso.

Valora demasiado lo que la gente le dice. Considera las palabras dichas como un medio de llegar a la verdad. Yo las considero un medio para ocultarla. El

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

I can at least comfort myself with the idea that whatever Ive done Ive helped to nail a lie, and Im coming to think that lying is among the worst of all human failings. Next to actual killing. And experience has made us almost equally good at both of them. I have killed many people and seen many more killed on my orders, Jogajong said. It is what must be paid to buy what we want. What weve been told we want, by liars more skilled than ourselves.