Quotes About Manipulation

there was no objective truth, only the truth that's established by power.

And of course we know that social control is best managed through fear.

for the last fifteen years we have been under the control of an entirely new complex, far more powerful and far more pervasive. I call it the politico-legal-media complex. The PLM. And

Saben lo que están haciendo. Hay máquinas por doquier. Antes servían al hombre, pero ahora empiezan a dominarle. Muy sutilmente, pero pronto lo lograrán. -Harry Benson-

Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match; you had to think several steps ahead; you had to imagine all the possible ways a reporter might distort your statement. The atmosphere was relentlessly adversarial.

I call it the politico-legal-media complex. The PLM. And it is dedicated to promoting fear in the population—under the guise of promoting safety.

it's because America has become a land without substance. We let our manufacturing go. We don't make things anymore. When you manufacture products, you add value to raw materials, and you literally create wealth. But America has stopped doing that. Americans make money now by paper manipulation

Mensen zijn dom. Op een trommel slaan om een beer aan het dansen te krijgen, terwijl we de sterren zouden willen ontroeren.

Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course.

You might very well think that - I couldn't possibly comment.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they'll make of you? Maybe you'll help them to persuade people to buy things they don't need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

My will can control anything that's empty.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.

When it comes to controlling humans, there is no better instrument than lies.

In fact, that's the heart of the matter. Don't you see? If humans believe Fantastica doesn't exist, they won't get the idea of visiting your country. And as long as they don't know you creatures of Fantastica as you really are, the Manipulators do what they like with them.

Und nichts gibt größere Macht über die Menschen als die Lüge. Denn die Menschen, Söhnchen, leben von Vorstellungen. Und die kann man lenken. Diese Macht ist die Einzige, was zählt.

deceivers must expect to be deceived.

There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.

They like to get away with stuff, and they want a small group of players to know it too. Shooting drug dealers and taking their cash, inventing evidence, lying to make a case. They like the wink, they like thinking they're inside something and everyone else is on the outside looking in. Hell, you're the psychologist, you explain it. But it has

We and our parents and grandparents, our children and grandchildren, are the ones who are sent to manufactured wars where we die. For what? For what we believe to be a righteous cause, never realizing we have been sent to the killing fields by a small group of psychopaths who are motivated only by greed and their lust for power. Because

Someone out there was using the fact that stock market orders arrived at different times at different exchanges to front-run orders from one market to another.

Wing Chau didn't know he'd been handpicked by Greg Lippmann to persuade Steve Eisman that the people on the other end of his credit default swaps were either crooks or morons, but he played the role anyway.

You invite a few players in to start a game of Texas Hold'em by telling them that the deck doesn't have any jacks or queens in it and that you won't tell the other people who come to play with them. How do you get people into the casino? You pay the brokers to bring them there.

That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do.