Quotes About Manipulation

Due diligence people are easy to manipulate. You just have to act really diligent. They eat it up.

Trying to, you know, persuade others to join our side. Trying to make the other side look bad. Just like the Internet always was.

You're assuming," Luisa said, "that she has a plan. I doubt that she does. She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward." Doob pulled his tablet closer and started trying to find Tav's blog. "To what extent do you imagine she really is reporting facts about the AC? As opposed to creating the reality she describes?" Doob asked. "What's the difference?" Luisa asked.

What about all those hieroglyphic inscriptions?" "Bumper stickers, Lagos called them. Corrupt political speech.

Bulshytt: Speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said.

The mass of people are so stupid, so gullible, because they want to be misled. There's no way to make them not want it. You have to work with the human race as it exists, with all of its flaws. Getting them to see reason is a fool's errand.

Now we're back in a situation where the people who have the power and the money can get what they want by dictating what the mass of people ought to believe.

One sort of glib explanation I heard once was that Rhetors could change the past, and were glad to do it, but Incanters could change the future—and were reluctant.

Whether or not this was a valid theory, the fact was that Aïda swallowed it hook, line, and sinker and used it to inform her genetic strategy in the Great Game.

He can control these people by grafting radio receivers into their skulls, broadcasting instructions—me—directly into their brainstems.

She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.

Basically, anyone who reads the National Enquirer or watches pro wrestling on TV is easy to convert.

How does a poor country defeat rich ones?" "Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it." "Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?" "But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel." "Currency!" "Indeed.

Government is the perfect portrayer of the accuracy of the axiom that if you lie big enough, long enough, the lie becomes the "truth.

Truth and politics do not and cannot mix because politics is the art of saying only what needs to be said—and saying it in just the right way—in order to achieve a desired end.

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can get away with—for the more people government helps, the more people help the government. Whom the government supports, supports the government.

The Hitler Experience was made possible as a result of group consciousness. Many people want to say that Hitler manipulated a group—in this case, his countrymen—through the cunning and the mastery of his rhetoric.

No woman ever gets given a fur coat for good reasons; if it's not to keep her on her back, it's to get her off his.

It's the art of letting people deceive themselves without actually telling them lies.

First, get your facts straight. Then, distort them at your leisure.

They'd leave open loops (or unfinished metaphors and stories) in my mind that they'd close a week later. They'd play music designed to elicit specific psychological reactions. They'd put me into trances so deep that hours went by in the blink of an eye.

The great lie of modern dating is that in order to sleep with a woman, a man must pretend initially as if he doesn't want to.

There was a lesson here, perhaps the last one this community would teach me. And that was always to follow my instincts and first impressions. I hadn't trusted either Papa or Tyler Durden when I'd first met them. I found Papa spoiled and robotic, and Tyler Durden soulless and manipulative. And though they'd made great leaps forward when it came to fashion and game, Mystery was right: The scorpion can't deny its nature.

Find some disgruntled member, whisper a lie in his ear and he will wreak havoc in your church.