Quotes About Manipulation

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

These monstrous views,... these venomous teachings.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.

Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats, storytellers dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.