Quotes About Manipulation

But these experts weren't experts on human nature, it turns out: instead, they used science as a catchword for political priorities that maximized centralization.

During the FDR administration, economic policy was set from the top; ignoring the injunction by economically laissez-faire thinkers that no set of individuals can know more than the entire market at large, FDR and his cadre of geniuses lengthened the Great Depression by nearly a decade by manipulating the currency, setting wages and prices, and bullying those who objected into silence.

if you repeat something enough, it becomes true.

You go around, tellin' lies, and now you wanna compromise Whatcha tryin' to do to my heart?

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Give me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to.

Of all political curses the most terrible is an assembly that is but the instrument of a single man.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour

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.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Diplomacy is seduction in another guise, Mr. Adams. One improves with practice.

Anoint a villain and he'll stab you, stab him & he'll anoint you.

A man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor

The world is a sewer of lies. We're all up to our necks in the sweet shit of it.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

The enslavement of language in prattle is joined by the enslavement of things in folly almost as its inevitable consequence.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.