Quotes About Manipulation

When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

Tammany Hall and slavery usually found 'The Herald' on their side.

We all flirt. When I go into a meeting with new clients I flirt with them; when I want 20p off a hamburger I'll flirt with them. It's not about being sexual - it's about getting someone's attention and getting your own way in a seductive way.

Demagogues thrive in dim light.

Who can I trust?" Arthur blurted out. "Those who wish you well," said the Old One. "Not those who wish to use you well. Be a player, not a pawn

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

As the British statesman and Rothschild confidante Benjamin Disraeli wrote in Coningsby: So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

La manipulación mediante la culpa («Si fueras un buen cónyuge, harías esto por mí»), no es un lenguaje del amor. La coerción mediante el miedo («Hazlo o lo lamentarás»), es algo ajeno al amor.

The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will simply invert the power structure to suit their needs. They will come out on top no matter what. Stuyvesant was hard but hopeful; Oberlin, on the other hand, reminds me yet again how the world works. I guess that's why they call it an education.

That's what tyrants can do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true.

Or was this merely a riff on her unfortunate marriage? Her misfortune as part of his seduction?

Power is not a means, Vinston; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." I

Ronald Coase cynically observed that, "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

If there's one thing I know, it's that the minute someone feels obligated to tell you not to be afraid of them, that's the time to start being afraid of them.

An easily manipulated population that cares mostly for its own amusement may be more ready for tyranny (which can keep the masses happy with bread and circuses) than for the arduous responsibilities of self-government.

I don't think he hates in the way we understand it," Dorcas replied softly. "Or for that matter, that he loves. He wants to manipulate everything he comes upon, to change it with his will. And since tearing down is easier than building, that's what he does most often.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. What is the Autarch but a man who believes himself Autarch and makes others believe by the strength of it?

Yours is a race of pawns," Tzadkiel told me. "You move forward only, unless we move you back to begin the game again. But not all the pieces on the board are pawns.

I don't think he hates in the way we understand it. Or for that matter, that he loves. He wants to manipulate everything he comes upon, to change it with his will. And since tearing down is easier than building, that's what he does most often.

Mediante el empleo del lenguaje del dolor, por el momento lo había eliminado.... tan poderoso es el encantamiento de las palabras, que reduce a entidades manejables todas las pasiones que de otro modo nos enloquecerían y nos destruirían (La sombra del Torturador - Gene Wolfe)

She saw the children. They have been given viruses to educate them. From three weeks old they could speak and do basic arithmetic. By ten, they had been made adult, forced like flowers to bloom early. But they were not flowers of love. They were flowers of work, to be put to work. There was no time.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.