Quotes About Manipulation

counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.

They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet.

If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.

It's as if we have returned to the era of Protagoras and the sophists, the era when the art of persuasion --for which slogans, commercials, public propaganda meetings, newspapers, cinema, radio are the modern equivalent-- took the place of thought, determined the fate of cities and accomplished coups

Avec la grande presse et la T.S.F., on peut faire avaler par tout un peuple, en même temps que le petit déjeuner ou le repas du soir, des opinions toutes faites et par là même absurdes, car même des vues raisonnables se déforment et deviennent fausses dans l'esprit qui les reçoit sans réflexion ; mais on ne peut avec ces choses susciter même un éclair de pensée.

Just as he was an Elk, a Booster, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, just as the priests of the Presbyterian Church determined his every religious belief and the senators who controlled the Republican Party decided in little smoky rooms in Washington what he should think about disarmament, tariff, and Germany, so did the large national advertisers fix the surface of his life, fix what he believed to be his individuality.

As a newspaper man, Doremus remembered that the only reporters who misrepresented and concealed facts more unscrupulously than the Capitalists were the Communists.

to whom we should be grateful for explaining to us what the ruling classes of the country really want.

For even with an army of slaves, it was necessary to persuade them that they were freemen and fighters for the principle of freedom, or otherwise the scoundrels might cross over and join the enemy!

I tell you, an honest man gets sick when he hears the word 'Liberty' today, after what the Republicans did to it!

Do not adjust the controls on your television set. The creeped-out feeling you are experiencing is all in your mind.

Honestly, it's so easy to get what you want from people if they think you're a psycho.

People like that, the more you try to threaten them, the more aggressive they get. We need to coax him. Persuade him. Like that story about the man in his cloak - the wind can't blow it off him but the sun makes him take it off of his own accord.

The great thing about legal training is it really teaches you to lie.

Thou seek'st to part us, wrapping in soft words Hard thoughts.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.

Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.

Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep

Only those who are empty within, seek to suppress those around them