Quotes About Manipulation

Una mentira repetida mil veces se convierte en una verdad

Un immonde vieillard essayait de suborner le pays. "Soyez sages, soyez lâches, enseignait-il. Oubliez que vous avez été fiers, joyeux et libres. Obéissez et souriez au vainqueur. Il vous laissera vivoter tranquilles.

Confronting authority, one has only two choices: Surrender, or try to confuse it.

all of them are ideologues, and the ideology is, quite simply put, global domination by a self-appointed elite.

power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the outcomes one wants.

and because of that, you have ensured my success. Because once I'm back to full health, I'll be able to bend any cat to my will. . . . Just ask that skinny black cat with the yellow eyes.

Now Ashfur had an even more powerful weapon to use against Squirrelflight:

Mr. Morrow, IOI owns this network..." "Of course they do!" Morrow shouted gleefully. 'The own practically everything! Including you, pretty boy! I mean did they tattoo a UPC code on your ass when they hired you to sit there and spout their corporate propaganda?

What if they're using videogames to train us to fight without us even knowing it? Like Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, when he made Daniel-san paint his house, sand his deck, and wax all of his cars—he was training him and he didn't even realize it! Wax on, wax off—but on a global scale!

I knew Knotcher was trying to push my buttons. Unfortunately, he'd pushed the big red one first.

Mr. Morrow, IOI owns this network.…" "Of course they do!" Morrow shouted gleefully. "They own practically everything! Including you, pretty boy! I mean, did they tattoo a UPC code on your ass when they hired you to sit there and spout their corporate propaganda?

Peu importaient les responsables au pouvoir, ils se contentaient de modifier l'agencement des transats sur le pont du Titanic, et personne ne se faisait d'illusions.

In this place a mind was at work to negate the image of a free and intact man. It intended to rely on man power in the same way that it had relied on horsepower. It wanted units to be equal and divisable, and for that purpose man had to be destroyed as the horse had already been destroyed.

Die Sklaverei lässt sich bedeutend steigern, indem man ihr den Anschein der Freiheit gewährt.

Economic absurdities are produced only when power is at stake.

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

Power consists in making oneself the goal of another person's social instincts, without seeking to satisfy one's own social instincts through him. The other then does everything one asks. Powerlessness consists in wanting or having to satisfy one's social instincts through another person whose social instincts one has not succeeded in concentrating on oneself - one then does everything the other asks.

Within our twenty-first century modes of communication, truth can be easily manipulated and framed to get the viewer of the information to receive it in a predetermined way, to elicit a desired spin of "truth." Turning on the light doesn't guarantee the clarifying of confusion anymore. If all of the media of our societal experience make us believe that a rope is a snake, then a rope becomes a snake, either in darkness or the light of day.

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

Take a perfect circle, caress it and you'll have a vicious circle.

ce vieux Grec...prophétisant l'avenir de cette nation, qui fut toujours un moyen ou un prétexte dans les mains des puissances européennes

Left to ourselves we turn God into an object, something we can deal with, some thing we can use to our benefit, whether that thing is a feeling or an idea or an image.

Any understanding of God that doesn't take into account God's silence is a half truth — in effect, a cruel distortion — and leaves us vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by leaders who are quite willing to fill in the biblical blanks with what the Holy Spirit never tells us.

When men and women get their hands on religion, one of the first things they often do is turn it into an instrument for controlling others, either putting or keeping them "in their place." The history of such religious manipulation and coercion is long and tedious. It is little wonder that people who have only known religion on such terms experience release or escape from it as freedom. The problem is that the freedom turns out to be short-lived.