Quotes About Manipulation

He lied with a smile that paralyzed reason." [Abby Chandlis - main character of The List]

HIstory collects secrets like politicians collect lies.

I have a clever and devious plan.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they see how those others are deceived and made into fools because they chose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse.

Consider this a warning. Liars will lie, and continue to do so, even beyond being caught out. They will lie, and in time, such liars will convince themselves, will in all self-righteousness divest the liars of culpability.

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.

Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.

My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

When dozens of company results are flooding newspaper offices everyday, an occasional fraudster slips in what looks like an authentic press release, with fake company results/information aimed at manipulating share prices.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

TV and film are always slipping in political messages, not ones designed to bring us together but to divide us.

It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

News isn't just what happens. It's what a fairly small group of people decide is news.

The revelation is that when you lift the curtain, history is decided by a very small group of people, and their own interests guide their actions, not necessarily the laws or principles we think our country rides on.

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

The ones who are the smartest are the ones who use us. In other words, they understand the relationship between the press and leaders.

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

There's something just so kind of smooth about politicians.

When you're a snake charmer, you're gonna get bit.