Quotes About Manipulation

even a question can be a lie if asked in the right way.

The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.

The intellect is undeniably useful in its own field, but is a great cheat and illusionist outside of it whenever it tries to manipulate values.

Eddie Haskell

I've been doing this a long time- manipulating people to get my way. That's why you think you love me. Because I've broken you down and built you back up to believe it. It wasn't an accident. Once you leave this behind..... you'll see that. -Caleb

This, I thought, was how the real power-play went: conversations in corners and gardens, nods, shrugs, inclinations of the head. But nothing in writing.

What are any of us but pawns in the schemes of the great?

Is Silicon Valley programming apps or are they programming people?" Cooper asks. "They are programming people,

The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, . . . was all about: "How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?" And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever.

in many cases these addictive properties of new technologies are not accidents, but instead carefully engineered design features.

They are programming people," Harris says. "There's always this narrative that technology's neutral. And it's up to us to choose how we use it. This is just not true—" "Technology is not neutral?" Cooper interrupts. "It's not neutral. They want you to use it in particular ways and for long periods of time. Because that's how they make their money.

Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlined in Brave New World," he argued in his 1993 book on the topic. "It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant.

It's not neutral. They want you to use it in particular ways and for long periods of time. Because that's how they make their money.

And so the new century will bring a new kind of law,' was how Mr. Picton summed things up..... 'Proceedings where victims and witnesses are put on trial instead of defendants, where a murderer in identified as 'a woman' instead of an individual....If things go on like this we'll find ourselves in some shadow world, where lawyers use the ignorance of the average citizen to manipulate justice the way priests did in the Middle ages.

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

All of us show many faces to the world. No one shows her true face all the time. To do that would be dangerous, for what is seen can also be known. And what is known can be outmaneuvered, outguessed. Lifted up, or hunted down.

Smack of conspiracy

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

General Robert Baden-Powell, later founder of the Boy Scouts, drastically cut African rations in an attempt to spare not just his own men but any white civilians trapped in the town with them. His plan was to starve the native population until they were forced to break out of the besieged city in search of food, thus reducing the number of mouths to feed.

As is true of most men who wield their power like a weapon, Conkling was widely feared, slavishly obeyed, and secretly despised.

desperate people can make themselves believe anything!

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Las personas son tan imprevisibles que en ocasiones incluso a mí se me hace difícil manipularlas. A veces conviene dejarles algo de libertad para que actúen según su lamentable criterio. Con un poco de suerte, acaban empeorando bastante las cosas.