Quotes About Manipulation

All her life she had been taught that the Language allowed its users to shape reality.

The ad does not say "Buy this!"; it says, "Be assured that if you buy and display this product, others are being well trained to feel ugly and inferior in your presence, just as you feel ugly and inferior compared with this goddess.

We are puppets, pulled by a wire by unknown forces; nothing, nothing ourselves!

You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

Churchless born agains are not interested in being pressured into immediate engagement. They left the fold before, and they will do it again if they feel they are being manipulated to participate in programs or activities merely to help an organization reach its quantitative goals. If they return, it will be for spiritual and relational reasons; they do not want to be numbers on the bottom line or cogs in the machine.

Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

I know that this traitor language can turn One truth into another or even Against itself. Yet, it is all we have.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

The varieties of skullduggery which make up the repertoire of the totalitarian government are just about as unlimited as human ingenuity itself, and just about as unpleasant. For, as you know, no holds are barred. There are no rules of the game. They can do anything that they think is in their interests.

A disquieting era of genetic manipulation is coming, one that may revolutionize human capacities, and notions of health. If we treat moral scruples impatiently, as inherently retrograde in a scientifically advancing civilization, we will not be in moral trim when, soon, our very humanity depends on our being in trim.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

The permutations of rent-seeking are as many as the administrative state is vast. Rent-seeking is the activity of attempting to increase one's income without increasing the quantity or quality of the goods or services offered to customers. It is the attempt to manipulate public power for private advantage—to get government to improve your economic circumstances by conferring a benefit on you or a handicap on your competitors.

Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope.

Pero su meta no era ganar. Ni siquiera estaba claro qué significaba ganar. Su meta era sólo perturbar al mundo musulmán y ponerlo en contra de sí mismo, para que no emergiera un imperio islámico.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

Se supone que el Demonio de Maxwell era un personaje muy hábil, capaz de observar cada molécula y cambiar a su antojo la dirección del movimiento de la misma.