Quotes About Manipulation

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Moreover, not unlike presidential candidates who hold babies up in the air as soon as the cameras are rolling, male chimps vying for power develop a sudden interest in infants, which they hold and tickle in order

It is true that if care is taken to use only a language that it's understood by graduates in law and economics, you can easily prove that the masses have to be managed from above.

Resorting to technical language means you are determined to treat the masses as uninitiated. Such language is a poor front for the lecturer's intent to deceive the people and leave them on the sidelines. Language's endeavor to confuse is a mask behind which looms an even greater undertaking to dispossess. The intention is to strip the people of their possessions as well as their sovereignty. You can explain anything to the people provided you really want them to understand.

It is commonly thought with criminal flippancy that to politicize the masses means from time to time haranguing them with a major political speech.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

The team had the hardest time hacking into the server of the J-2, the Joint Staff's intelligence directorate. Finally, one of the team members simply called the J-2's office and said that he was with the Pentagon's IT department, that there were some technical problems, and that he needed to reset all the passwords. The person answering the phone gave him the existing password without hesitating. The Red Team broke in.

A system that has only one goal, the maximization of profits in an endless quest for the accumulation of capital on an ever-ending scale, and which thus seeks to transform every single thing on earth into a community with a price, is a system that is soulless; it can never have a soul, never be green. It can never stand still, but is driven to manipulate and fabricate whims and wants in order to grow and sell more... forever. Nothing is allowed to stand in its path.

Most of the time when we say 'freedom,' we mean 'do it my way or I'll shoot you.

chi dice superstizione dice credulità. Chi dice credulità dice manipolazione, e chi dice manipolazione dice calamità. E' la piaga dell'umanità, ha fatto più morti lei di tutte le epidemie di peste messe assieme.

These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics...

Frederick Forsyth

When one can understand the people, their gullibility and their fear, their greed and their lust for power, their ignorance and their docility to the man who shouts the loudest, one can forgive.

It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them.

conspirational tradecraft

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

Every time we take a step we're surrounded by the ideological birds of prey who feed on our possibilities, fill themselves with concepts of our desires and reenslave us with beautiful combinations of words which seem to depict the world we failed to realize.

Medien zu verstehen, ist eine Unmöglichkeit, weil gerade umgekehrt die jeweils herrschenden Nachrichtentechniken alles Verstehen fernsteuern und seine Illusionen hervorrufen.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

Die Partei weiß genau, daß sie nur jene zu fürchten hat, welche die Ideale ernst nehmen, die sie zu verkörpern vorgibt.

Ein Hohlkopf an der Spitze einer Großmacht, Nationalrat, und schon werden wir weggeschwemmt, ein Gastmann, und schon sind unsere Ketten durchbrochen, die Vorposten umgangen.