Quotes About Manipulation

Politicians will respect, rather than manipulate, reality only if the public cares about the truth and punishes politicians when it catches them in deliberate deception.

If the cognitive function operated in isolation, without any interference from the manipulative function, it could produce knowledge. Knowledge is represented by true statements. A statement is true if it corresponds to the facts. But if the manipulative function is at work, the facts no longer serve as an independent criterion of truth.

Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

It is said that true tricstkers can make trouble between two pans in a kitchen.

Concerns about democracy's future are better directed elsewhere, John Paul argues, for if "there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power.

La femme séduite est "énamourée". Difficile à regarder. C'est comme un animal. J'essaie de séduire. Puis quand c'est fait, je trouve ridicule la personne séduite. Incapable d'en jouir. Je l'ai rendue idiote, la belle affaire. Tour de cartes. Mais je joue avec mes cartes. Quel drôle de prestidigitateur, qui en veut aux spectateurs de croire, de l'applaudir, qui joue sans jouer, qui souffre de tromper sans tromper. Oui quelle drôle de vie.

Humans for the most part are unwary victims of the degree to which they have been controlled while at the same time purported to have freedom but in fact it is basically an illusion.

Consider osteopathic manipulation. For more than one hundred years, osteopathic physicians have been using a procedure called the lymphatic pump treatment for swelling (edema) and infection. But we

If you cannot think of three ways of abusing a tool, you do not understand how to use it. Faithful

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

Terminological inexactitude

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.

The object of oratory is not truth, but persuasion.

Party honesty is party expediency.