Quotes About Manipulation

Orphaned daughters of a well-to-do English officer in the Imperial Army Medical Service, Dorothea was born in Trichinopoli, India, Claire in London. And though schooled in Switzerland, England, and France and well traveled, the sisters, especially Claire, exhibited a childlike naïveté and innocence that sometimes left them a target of manipulation by those with dubious intentions.

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told!

Some people always manage to make us feel sorry for them, no matter how stupid and angry we feel about it after.

Hell, no. I can't stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there's no river.

Some people always manage to make us feel sorry for them, no matter how stupid and angry we feel about it after. They're the canaries, kind of, in the coalmines of our hearts.

Non sopporto i politici, è gente che ti promette un ponte anche se non ci sono fiumi.

we can shape behaviour more fluently than we can understand it.

He was one of those guys who smile as a tactic, you know, and not because they actually feel anything worth smiling about. Kind of like the way a chimpanzee smiles.

Some people always manage to make us feel sorry for them, no matter how stupid and angry we feel about it after. They're the canaries, kind of, in the coalmines of our hearts. If we stop feeling sorry for them, when they let us down, we're in deep trouble.

So, that's it,' he concluded. 'The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told.

The first rule of black business everywhere is: never let anyone know what you're thinking. Didier's corollary to the rule was: always know what the other thinks of you.

There is no such thing as a trivial choice. That is why so many powerful people try to influence all our choices

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. But

Politics isn't lying. It's the art of knowing who's lying.

hate politics, and politicians even more. They make a religion of being greedy. It's unforgivable.

The elephant in the room is that we can shape behaviour more fluently than we can understand it.

Glinda used her glitter beads, and you used your exotic looks and background, but weren't you just doing the same thing, trying to maximize what you had in order to get what you wanted? People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they're good, or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.