Quotes About Manipulation

The player is always trapped in his own play but he must never allow the spectators to suspect this, they must always think that he is free. Thus the great art of the player is not in showing but in concealing.

even though the orthodox claimed that this kind of manipulation of texts was a heretical activity, in the manuscripts of the New Testament that survive today almost all the evidence points in the other direction, showing that it was precisely orthodox scribes who modified their texts in order to make them conform more closely with orthodox theological interests.

There are people who need people to need them. The reason you don't understand is because you're not one of those people. You'd use me and then toss me away like a paper bag if that's what it came down to. God fucked you, my friend. You're just smart enough so it would hurt you to do that, and just hard enough so you'd go ahead and do it anyway. You wouldn't be able to help yourself.

In scenes like these, any man could be Iago.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

George Orwell knew when he wrote 1984: if you say a thing often enough, it will be accepted as truth.

Because when Eddie's in that fuckin zone, he could talk the devil into setting himself on fire.

Bernays was one of the first masters of modern mass psychology. He liked to describe himself as the "father of public relations," and no one disagreed. His specialty was what he called "the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses.

With his manifold instruments of personal power, he was mercilessly hounding all those who expressed differences of opinion with him, but he was always the victim.

Advertising - A judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to be more motivated, to like me and each other—while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity—then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do—even using so-called good human relations techniques—will be perceived as manipulative.

but they don't really want to listen; they want to manipulate. And synergy can't thrive in that

My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I do—even using so-called good human relations techniques—will be perceived as manipulative.

They want other people to be the way they want them to be. They often want to clone them, and they surround themselves with "yes" people—people who won't challenge them, people who are weaker than they.

in an artificial social system such as school, you may be able to get by if you learn how to manipulate the man-made rules, to "play the game.

That is Lord Foul's way in all things—to force his foes to become that which they most hate, and to destroy that which they most love.

It is true that the world has changed, but in many ways it remains the same as seventy years ago. Hate still exists. Bigotry can be manipulated . The masses are gullible . - Schub

Words are indeed the true weapons of mass destruction.

Politics is a powerful drug.

imposters, in one shape or another, are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is and society shows itself ready to be gulled.

Communism's entire existence depended on coercion.

no different from the myriad of other politicos he'd bought and sold from around the world, men and women eager for power and lacking in conscience.

Hate still exists. Bigotry can be manipulated. The masses are gullible.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe.