Quotes About Manipulation

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

Kindness is the excuse that social justice warriors use when they want to exercise control over what other people think and say.

Do not trust anyone who uses the words "disinformation" or "misinformation." What they mean is "opinions that run contrary to mine that I should be allowed to suppress.

Realization is dawning. Instead of playing the tyrant, therefore, you are paying attention. You are telling the truth, instead of manipulating the world.

After that comes the arrogance and sense of superiority that inevitably accompanies the production of successful lies (hypothetically successful lies—and that is one of the greatest dangers: apparently everyone is fooled, so everyone is stupid, except me. Everyone is stupid and fooled, by me—so I can get away with whatever I want). Finally, there is the proposition: "Being itself is susceptible to my manipulations. Thus, it deserves no respect.

Once a properly functional hierarchy has been established, an opportunity opens for its positions of authority to be usurped, not by people who have the competence demanded by the task at hand, but by those willing to use manipulation, deceit, and compulsion to gain status and control.

But it is not easy to distinguish between someone truly wanting and needing help and someone who is merely exploiting a willing helper.

You can use words to manipulate the world into delivering what you want. This is what it means to "act politically." This is spin. It's the specialty of unscrupulous marketers, salesmen, advertisers, pickup artists, slogan-possessed utopians and psychopaths

It's the speech people engage in when they attempt to influence and manipulate others. It's what university students do when they write an essay to please the professor, instead of articulating and clarifying their own ideas. It's what everyone does when they want something, and decide to falsify themselves to please and flatter. It's scheming and sloganeering and propaganda.

Someone living a life-lie is attempting to manipulate reality with perception, thought and action, so that only some narrowly desired and pre-defined outcome is allowed to exist.

They believe, narcissistically, underneath all that bad theory, that the world could be put right, if only they held the controls.

They exaggerate the importance of some events, and downplay the importance of others. They trim the facts to fit their theory.158 And they convince their clients that they were sexually abused—if they could only remember.

You do not want to try to resolve their pain at this point. In fact, if anything, you want to amplify that pain.

People don't buy stock; it gets sold to them. Don't ever forget that.

They're running the con on themselves.

probabilities of uncertain events can be mathematically described and manipulated—but are in fact not obvious at all. If they were, they would not have arrived so late in the history of human thought.

The human body is an immensely complex system, and there are only a few of its features we can measure, let alone manipulate. Based on the correlations we can observe, there are lots of drugs that might plausibly have a desired health effect. And so you try them out in experiments, and most of them fail dismally. To work in drug development requires a resilient psyche, not to mention a vast pool of capital.

Break their hearts and take their money , they have no power.

La gente te hace daño cuando sabe que puede hacerte daño. Si le quitas la oportunidad, la desarmas.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Si la posverdad existe, tendríamos que imaginarla no como el ámbito donde los poderosos mienten, y ni siquiera donde mienten de modo sistemático, sino aquel donde sus mentiras ya no incomodan a nadie y la distinción entre verdad y mentira se torna irrelevante.

a nadie parece importarle que la AFI, la Policía Federal y la PGR hayan mentido una y otra vez o que hayan tramado esa argamasa de verdades y ficciones que hemos llamado el montaje

Le mélange du vrai et du faux est énormément plus toxique que le faux pur. PAUL VALÉRY

Niemand profiteert meer van cynisme over politiek dan cynische politici.