Quotes About Manipulation

We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

The Russian government imposed my head on the body of Russian models in straight jackets.

Try not to be either intimidated by or a captive of jargon. Even though it's language, and language is about communication, it often exists actually to obfuscate and to control power and not to communicate.

It's almost going to sound like a jerk thing to say, but it's so easy to manipulate the fans to love us or hate us. It's fun. It makes it really fun.

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

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Hoje em dia, (…) chegámos a um ponto em que os cidadãos se distraem com as teorias conspirativas mais bizarras sobre o modo como o governo está a ser manipulado por elites obscuras para lhes retirar os seus direitos, e armam-se em antecipação do momento em que terão de se defender do Estado pela força.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man." To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service." Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo!

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

He shouldn't be telling her this. He's using information from my life to give himself power. I loathe that.

I told you that day: a pair of idiots. I thought she was leading you around by the nose--or some other organ.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Politics is gut commercials are gut.

A gun is a liar's weapon

Ivar appreciated Berning's reconciliation. The message from Ernst & Ernst was that if Ivar decided he didn't like some numbers, they easily could be changed. As the old joke went, when an accountant interviewing for a job is asked, "What is two plus two?" the best answer is not "Four," but "What do you want it to be?

In 1988, a group of prominent homosexuals got together in Warrentown, Virginia, to map out their plan to get homosexuality accepted by the general public. In the book that resulted from their meeting, they revealed a strategy that achieves its effect "without reference to facts, logic or proof . . . the person's beliefs can be altered whether he is conscious of the attack or not."1

The American people are quite competent to judge a political party that works both sides of a street.