Quotes About Manipulation

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

[People] assume that there must be something to [Donald Trump] grandiose self-presentation, because who could be a con man on that big of a scale?

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

The gods play games with men as balls.

So far I'm not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

Give me an honest con man any day.

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

When your opponent sets up a straw man, set it on fire and kick the cinders around the stage. Don't worry about losing the Strawperson- American community vote.

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people.

One of the things that is interesting about reading conspiracy theory is that much of what folks think is conspiracy is really many people acting in concert to make or protect their money.