Quotes About Manipulation

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.

Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

All war is deception.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.