Quotes About Manipulation

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.

Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing.

it's hardly headline news that the corporate state and its media are using the latest gadget-com and gimmick-tech to dumb us down as steadily as if they were standing on a stool and pounding our brains with a frozen ham.

the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.

People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.

How would you define the word 'populist'? I think that a populist might claim to unify the will of the people by insulting established politicians who have become increasingly corrupt. Quote Dial M for Murdoch by Tom Watson, Martin Hickman Rupert Murdoch was not running a normal business, but a shadow state … it is still there and Rupert Murdoch is still in charge.

You looking good. Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.

Girls can do that. Steer a man away from death or drive him right to it.

You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.

If you can't count they can cheat you. If you can't read they can beat you.

You looking good. Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad. He looked at her and the word bad took on another meaning.

That all they want, man, is they own misery. Ax em to die for you and they yours for life.

Men wear you down to a sharp piece of gristle if you let them.

Girls can do that. Steer a man away from death or drive him to it.

Satan seeks to capture your thoughts because they are what will trigger your emotions, which in turn influence your actions. Thus, addictions are prolonged through emotional manipulations.

Worse, the language of politics itself has been vacated of substance and meaning.

The idea that those in authority know best—that they are engaged in social engineering on behalf of people who do not understand what is good for them—was not born in 1945, but it flourished in the decades that followed.

if politi-cians—however well-intentioned—were barred from planning, manipulating, or directing the affairs of their fellow citizens, then extremists of Right and Left alike would be kept at bay.

had brought Stalin credibility and influence, in the counsels of governments and on the streets.

I wonder if we're truly subverting anything, or if we're just playing with a loaded gun.

A veces hay que atacar a la gente con sus propias armas. El truco está en no mostrar ni la más mínima duda mientras se habla y en incluir al menos a un reconocido autor de éxito, preferiblemente a uno del que efectivamente se haya leído algo. Además, cuanto más exóticos y extranjeros sean los nombres, mejor.

Sometimes you have to turn people's own weapons against them.

The only conspiracy that matters is the conspiracy of the psychopaths against the rest of us.