Quotes About Manipulation

Macht ist nur die leere Erhöhung des eigenen Willens über den Willen anderer.

have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them.

truth was a source of power, a lever of control, why should anyone give it away?

this place is full of shit. It's run by aliens from outer space. Sure, they make the food look Italian, they make it smell Italian, but it tastes like goo from Mars.

The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear, not of death, but that you may be the one to kill him. He is yours then." It

Trujillo podía hacer que el agua se volviera vino y los panes se multiplicaran, si le daba en los cojones

La consciente e inteligente manipulación de los hábitos organizados y las opiniones de las masas es un elemento importante de la sociedad democrática

they knew what we're doing for them, they'd kiss our feet. But mentally they are closer to the crocodile and the hippopotamus than to you or me. That's why we decide what is good for them and have them sign those contracts.

La consciente e inteligente manipulación de los hábitos organizados y las opiniones de las masas es un elemento importante de

La consciente e inteligente manipulación de los hábitos organizados y las opiniones de las masas es un elemento importante de la sociedad democrática. Quienes manipulan este desconocido mecanismo de la sociedad constituyen un gobierno invisible que es el verdadero poder en nuestro país... La inteligente minoría necesita hacer uso continuo y sistemático de la propaganda».

Con gli anni, mi hai fatto diventare come te. Tutto serve per ottenere quello che uno vuole. Sono parole tue, nina mala. E io, lo sai fin troppo bene, l'unica cosa che voglio a questo mondo sei tu. (...) No, tu non sei capace di cose così. disse, a mezza voce, come lamentando quella carenza della mia personalità.

embaucador italiano Tommaso Debenedetti, que durante años estuvo publicando en diarios de su país «entrevistas» con escritores, políticos, religiosos (incluido el Papa), que

That was women for you -- always morphing. One minute they were helpless, needing shelter and English muffins, the next they were ruthlessly bending you to their will like you were a piece of sheet metal.

Never had a general so effectively willed away the facts.

remember the two signatures of modern war: (1) You never win, exactly; you claim victory. (2) Perception is paramount.

So making him rattled and weary became a strategy.

The absurd body counts and kill ratios were proof of his leadership. He sold them to LBJ, who in turn presented them as fact to the American people.

Since the publisher paid the salary; since rewrite men, like television writers, maintained their own feeling of superiority to the mass by writing down to the level of a not very bright twelve-year-old; since the facts had to be trimmed and altered to fit the open space or time slot; even these reporters had a difficult time of maintaining the usual odds—that there is only a twenty-to-one chance that anything said in the newspapers or on the air may be accurate.

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

life in our modern era is little more than life in an open-air mind-control laboratory.

Venice manipulated markets by controlling production. In the late thirteenth century, wishing to raise the world market price, Venice had all saltworks in Crete destroyed and banned the local production of salt.

Why would we not only believe, but become eternally beholden to some unctuous car salesman who claims to be putting the lives of his own children at risk by throwing in floor mats and a bug deflector? (I know why I would--because I'm so emotionally gullible, so desperate for tiny kindnesses in my misery.)

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.