Quotes About Manipulation

Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies, a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.

Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.

Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.

Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.

Sometimes, to protect a secret we will say it so openly that most will not suspect the truth of what we are saying.

People forget that there's two sides to every story. Of course somebody is going to tell the side of it that makes them look good and exaggerate the rest to make everyone else look bad.

Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.

There was no better way to sell a lie, she knew, than to sprinkle it with truth.

Ruby knew then that a lie could only control a person if they believed it.

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

A truth should exist, it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking.

It was only when these nefarious doings were satisfactorily completed that Steerpike visited the aunts for the second time and re-primed them in their very simple rôles as arsonists.

Pavitt's goal was to build a national network of like-minded people to fend off what he called "the corporate manipulation of our culture" by the media centers of New York and Los Angeles.

The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation.

He knew there were two kinds of truth in this world. The truth that was the unalterable bedrock of one's life and mission. And the other, malleable truth of politicians, charlatans, corrupt lawyers, and their clients, bent and molded to serve whatever purpose was at hand.

Bosch turned off the screen and sat there thinking about how the truth was always manipulated by those in power. It bothered him to know things that shouldn't be kept secret.

The law school notions about the virtue of the adversarial system, of the system's checks and balances, of the search for truth, had long since eroded like the faces of statues from other civilizations. The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation

Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It's subliminal. Most of what goes on in a police interrogation has nothing to do with what is said.

The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation. I didn't deal in guilt and innocence, because everybody was guilty. Of something.

aquella operación, los cajones acabaron en una disposición diferente: la correcta. Bosch estaba convencido de que alguien los había sacado todos para registrarlos por debajo y por detrás y luego los había vuelto a colocar en el lugar equivocado. Después

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

On the video monitor, they saw Ted Fielding slap the polished sphere and shout, Open! Open Sesame! Open up, you son of a bitch! The sphere did not respond.

Once again, vague terminology helped conceal what was really going on.