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Quotes About Manipulation

Sólo Dios sabrá; él que es culpable de estas infamias: Él, con mayúscula, con la mayúscula que se suele usar para el ser más monstruoso y cobarde, que mata y atropella por mano ajena, por la mano del hombre, su juguete, su sicario.
~ Fernando Vallejo
y he aquí otro ejemplo de lo hiperbólico que se nos ha vuelto el idioma en manos de los periodistas ¿una masacre de cuatro? Eso es puro desinflamiento semántico…
~ Fernando Vallejo
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, conthrols th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
These bandits would tax their own military to buy the votes of morons.
~ Flavio Volpe
Phil Cooper was eleven years old when he began to understand that his father meant to bend him to his will.
~ Fleur Beale
Of all of these anti-homeostatic factors in society, the control of the means of communication is the most effective and most important.
~ Flo Conway
He's] a rat. A first-class double-A-battery-run rat.
~ Flo Fitzpatrick
Quien propicia el poder de otro, labra su propia ruina".
~ Florencia Bonelli
To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them. To deceive them, it is necessary to persuade them that they are robbed for their own advantage, and to induce them to accept in exchange for their property, imaginary services, and often worse.
~ Frederic Bastiat
the decisive proof that the people are dupes is when the priest is rich and powerful.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Tout s'achète : l'amour, l'art, la planète Terre, vous, moi.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
no podía dejar de pensar en aquella frase de Adolf Hitler: «Si desea la simpatía de las masas, tiene que decirles las cosas más estúpidas y crudas.» Ese desprecio,
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
I am a good lawyer," said Renard. "Often I've made right out of wrong and wrong out of right, as it suited me." —ROMAN DE RENARD
~ Frances Gies
If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.
~ Frances Hardinge
Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.
~ Frances Hardinge
Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men's heads inside out and warp their destinies. They could pick up kingdoms and shake them until they rattled.
~ Frances Hardinge
In Caverna lies were an art and everybody was an artist, even young children.
~ Frances Hardinge
What's a little maiming and treachery between friends?
~ Frances Hardinge
Choose a lie that others wish to believe" was written beneath it. "They will cling to it, even if it is proven false before their face. If anyone tries to show them the Truth, they will turn on them and fight them tooth and nail.
~ Frances Hardinge
She was gauging him, trying to work out what cards he had up his sleeve. For now he might be able to keep her off balance by smiling meaningfully and dropping hints, delaying the moment in which she realized that she held all the cards, and that his well-brushed sleeves held nothing but his arms.
~ Frances Hardinge
Through the bars he had laid eyes on a face like glass, somebody who could not lie without it being obvious. And he had seen a way of using that very fact to tell the greatest of lies.
~ Frances Hardinge
Like medicine, truth could be used as a poison by someone cunning enough.
~ Frances Hardinge
Mosca had come armed with a rich pack of lies, ready to pick whichever seemed to suit Goshawk's mood best. Under the wintry draught of his gaze, however, she felt most of them wither away in her hands.
~ Frances Hardinge