Quotes About Manipulation

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

exploitation of the Negro through economic restriction and segregation the present system is sound and will doubtless continue until this gives place to the saner policy of actual interracial cooperation--not the present farce of racial manipulation in which the Negro is a figurehead.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

If manipulation really does increase welfare, then it would seem to be justified and even mandatory on ethical grounds.

In the United States, unmoored Markovian money can be manipulated at will by the Federal Reserve in the interests of its sponsors in government and their pseudo-private cronies.

Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.

In many cases, your success is going to depend on your ability to think in reverse, something Trump is a master of. Thinking in reverse comes into play when you make a proposal that is so outrageous that you know it has no chance of acceptance in its raw form and then reversing your course and agreeing to modify your proposal to make it more palatable for the other side.

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

When the poor man loose control of the best in himself... it ain't his fault at all, it is the fault of people who go 'round making poppits of other poor people.

These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

The psychopathic traits on which the bosses scored so highly, Board and Fritzon point out, closely resemble the characteristics that companies look for. Those who have these traits often possess great skill in flattering and manipulating powerful people. Egocentricity, a strong sense of entitlement, a readiness to exploit others and a lack of empathy and conscience are also unlikely to damage their prospects in many corporations.

About arrows - "They prick, cajole, exhort, sell, direct; and there is no way of measuring the amount of brain damage they do. It comes for free, however, like air pollution, Muzak in elevators, and the gentle sound of police sirens.

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.