Quotes About Manipulation

It used to be thought, when the candid images were not common, that showing something that needed to be seen, bringing a painful reality closer, was bound to goad viewers to feel more. In a world in which photography is brilliantly at the service of consumerist manipulations, no effect of a photograph of a doleful scene can be taken for granted.

He was the worst kind of liar, the kind who took hearts as hostages and broke them with impunity.

All magicians lie and this one more than most

the wicked woman's son was evidently making love to the girl. Both were standing by the old window-seat

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

You are engineers of human souls.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

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We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

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.

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Education is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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Writers are the engineers of the human souls

This is the way to rule the people. Did you see how that chicken followed me for food, even though I had caused it such torture? People are like that chicken. If you inflict inordinate pain on them they will follow you for food the rest of their lives.

I admire Trotsky, but for propaganda purposes, we must have someone to hate. Since 1937, we have had no one.

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

Charm. The most insidious weapon in all the human armoury.

I think it was Mark Twain who said, "Get your facts straight, and then you can distort them as much as you like.

Wear something sexy." "Asshole." "That will certainly work.

I'd grown up with a woman who could make a heap of stolen parts sound truer than the truth. She could shade a story I'd heard a thousand times until all at once the meaning inverted and it became its own opposite. I was her kid. I operated inside the ethics of my profession, but I could spin like nobody's business.