Quotes About Manipulation

Curious, a man's affection for the object that he manipulates.

Vivimos tiempos en los que la demagogia ha sustituido a lo que debe ser la política y halagar las pasiones del pueblo es moneda corriente.

Las viejas como la Peta Ponce tienen el poder de plegar y confundir el tiempo, lo multiplican y lo dividen, los acontecimientos se refractan en sus manos verrugosas como en el prisma más brillante, cortan el suceder consecutivo en trozos que disponen en forma paralela, curvan esos trozos y los enroscan organizando estructuras que les sirven para que se cumplan sus designios.

Lo que me deprime es ver lo complicado que son los esquemas de la mentira.

Comrades, I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how. But what is extraordinarily important is this: who will count the votes, and how.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.

Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.

People who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

There is no greater sign of a bad cause, than when the patrons of it are reduced to the necessity of making use of the most wicked artifices to support it.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

we will manage the worlds finance whether world likes it or not.

The most powerful sovereign has only two arms; his power depends on the instruments he uses and what he is given by public opinion.

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Revel in the fulsome flattery, dear fool! It does not stop war from being a filthy trick.

He was a fixer. He knew everyone who counted. He understood how things really worked in this town, as opposed to what they taught you in civics class or what you read in the papers, and he had a strong enough stomach to deal with all the creepy-crawlies you found when you turned over the rock.

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

You can't change the masses. They will always be the same: dumb, gluttonous and forgetful.

Our starting point is not the individual: We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked … Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

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

Nadejdzie dzie?, gdy k?amstwa zawal? si? pod w?asnym ci??arem, a prawda ponownie zatriumfuje (Eines Tages werden die Lügen unter ihrer eigenen Last zusammenbrechen, und die Wahrheit wird wieder triumphieren)

Und wenn Stalin seine Ge­neräle erschießt, dann brauchen wir das nicht einmal zu tuen. Ob wohl Stalin allmählich auch die Juden liquidiert? Vielleicht nennt er sie nur, um die Welt zu täuschen, Trotzkisten. Wer weiß? Jedenfalls sind wir nun mit Rußland verbunden. Wir haben bisher nur Vorteile davon gehabt. Der Führer hat Stalin in einem Film gesehen, und da war er ihm gleich sympathisch. Da hat eigentlich die deutsch-russische Koalition begonnen".