Quotes About Manipulation

Logic is what the devil likes most.

It's not about danger, it's about control. Keep people scared and stupid and you can make them do anything you want.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

Terror has to be random...that's how to really break people, when they don't know what rules to follow to keep them out of trouble.

The population is ignorant of intrigues and power games, therefore we believe it easy to manipulate, but it is in fact, far more perceptive than many of our great minds.

Hunt had helped set up the Bay of Pigs, was one of the Watergate "plumbers," and was alleged by one Lee Harvey Oswald familiar to have involved him in a mind-control operation.25

Augustus burning all the books attributed by ages past to the Sibyl–except the ones he ordered redacted to suit his image as the Awaited One, the Eternal Son of the Eternal Father, and Initiator of the Age of Gold. At the Pontifical Institute

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

As early as 1947, Birrell had acquired Doeskin Products, a listed corporation, by selling it $2 million in overvalued securities, then using the proceeds to buy out the controlling stockholders. In essence, he bought it with its own money!

Stock watering, bribery, and stock corners were all methods to his madness, but for good reason. "My God, you don't suppose you can run a railroad in accordance with the statutes of New York, do you?

Truth is always what they don't say.

Gold diggers are the wife beaters of men!

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

Brainwashing, psychotropic drugs, lobotomy, and other more subtle form of psychosurgery; the technocratic control apparatus of the United States has at its fingertips new techniques if which fully exploited could make Orwell's 1984 seem like a benevolent utopia.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions depending on what I think will help our election most.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

El mentiroso experimentado sabe que la clave del éxito está en fingir bien la ignorancia de ciertas cosas. Por ejemplo, de las consecuencias de lo que está diciendo. Es como hacer que sean los otros los que inventen.

Liars lie. That's what they do. Lying, and in so doing trying to make me lie to myself. Trying to make me not trust my family. Liars lie by cutting you loose from what you thought was so and persuading you this other thing they are waving in front of you is the new truth. ... Liars want you off balance and alone, so you can drown in self-doubt.

In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.