Quotes About Manipulation

Como mucho era el que, con juicio incomprensible para los actores de la humana comedia —por no decir mojiganga de matachines—, manejaba la tramoya, haciendo abrirse malignos escotillones o girar improvisados bofetones, poniéndote unas veces en tremendos bretes y sacándote otras de las situaciones más adversas

Un diablo inteligente ni siquiera necesita mentir

Porque la religión es la mayor forma de engaño inventada por el hombre. De violentar el sentido común hasta el disparate

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

The trouble between Hindus and Muslims, which has continued to this day, is not generated by the people's inability to get along, but by those in positions of power and influence who seek to exploit religious differences for personal gain.

Speaking truth in a away that it seems a lie benefits you more than telling a lie which seems true.

I knew i didn't know what the hell communism was, and yet i'd been dead set against it. Just like when you're a little kid and they get you to believe in the bogeyman. You don't know what the hell the bogeyman is, but you hate him and you're scared of him.

They had used the law to abuse the law.

in the hands of a skilled number cruncher, this bias can be hidden far better with numbers than with stories.

No pocos dictadores tienen tanto aprecio por las palabras como por las armas

The words of power, of authority, words above words, will be transformed into clever, lying words. Words below words.

The man who chooses to act pro bono suo, thereby turning a rule that was right into a wrong. that man is to be deemed a tirant, the wise king said, who, using the progress, wellbeing, and prosperitie of those he governs as a praetext, replaces the cultus of his people by that of his owne person, becoming thereby a fereful and fallacious pelican. His diabolical cunning turns those very men he doth claim to liberate into slaves.

Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless -- mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood.

Boys are like toilet paper. You rip them off, use them to wipe your ass, and then flush them down the toilet.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

He is super excited to see a big bunch of bootlickers going to bow before him and beg undue business favour from him and a lot of prepaid people will be brought to stand on both sides of road to wave and do slogan for him.

The army struck hard at the roots of populist politics by assassinating Bhutto. The prime minister was arrested, tried for murder and hung in 1979. The Machiavellian prince had turned into the tragic character of Christopher Marlow's Dr Faustus, who had sold his soul to the devil for power and become a victim of his own intellect.

They prey on the most vulnerable, exactly at the moment when they're not educated enough to know better, but religious enough to feel the impulse," he said. "They ply them with YouTube sheikhs and fatwas and nasheeds, and six months later the guy finds himself in Syria, smoking weed, convinced it was the right thing to do.

Exploit or get exploited.

Do not ask questions! The only real defense civilized man has against anybody who bothers him is to lie. There would be no lies if there were no questions.

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.