Quotes About Manipulation

Uno de mis dispositivos más inteligentes para el control mental es el miedo. Siembro la semilla del miedo en la mente de la gente, y a medida que germinan y crecen, con el uso, controlo el espacio que ocupan. Los seis miedos más efectivos son: el miedo a la pobreza, el miedo a las críticas, el miedo a la mala salud, el miedo a la pérdida del amor, el miedo a la vejez y el miedo a la muerte.

The world is controlled by emotions.

the Universal Law manipulates people and things in accordance with the energy we generate in our thought world through the use we make by our intellect of our inspirational, intuitional and revelational faculties.

A master salesperson is a strategist at mind manipulation.

The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

Beware of the person who gives advice, telling you that a certain action on your part is "good for you" while it is also good for him, while the harm to you doesn't directly affect him.

Humans will believe anything you say provided you do not exhibit the smallest shadow of diffidence; like animals, they can detect the smallest crack in your confidence before you express it. The trick is to be as smooth as possible in personal manners. It is much easier to signal self-confidence if you are exceedingly polite and friendly; you can control people without having to offend their sensitivity.

companies trying to misrepresent the product they sell by playing with our cognitive biases, our unconscious associations, and that's sneaky. The latter is done by, say, showing a poetic picture of a sunset with a cowboy smoking and forcing an association between great romantic moments and some given product that, logically, has no possible connection to it. You seek a romantic moment and what you get is cancer.

we can control a function of x, f(x), even if x remains vastly beyond our understanding.

Journalists are currently in the most insecure profession you can find: the majority live hand to mouth, and ostracism by their friends would be terminal. Thus they become easily prone to manipulation by lobbyists, as we saw with GMOs, the Syrian wars, etc. You say something unpopular in that profession about Brexit, GMOs, or Putin, and you become history. This is the opposite of business where me-tooism is penalized.

awareness of a problem does not mean much—particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.

Their focus becomes to play politics

some classes of people use hidden options and harm the collective without anyone realizing.

Karl Marx, un visionario, entendió que podemos controlar mejor a un esclavo convenciéndolo de que es un empleado.

People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention.

The best slave is someone you overpay and who knows it, terrified of losing his status.

threats of the dagger-by-your-bed variety are even better for bloodless control.

It is a very powerful manipulation to let others win the small battles.

That awareness of a problem does not mean much—particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.

you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

Thus they become easily prone to manipulation by lobbyists

It is those who use others who are the most upset when someone uses them.