Quotes About Manipulation

Adam did not become magically more cooperative. He was still manipulative and tested his parents, but now at least his parents were taking the lead, instead of following their child.

It is not a large exaggeration to say that everything else in a computer exists in order to bring information swiftly to the ALU for manipulation; and for the ALU, adding is the mechanical equivalent of breathing. But

Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.

Întreaga art? a r?zboiului este bazat? pe înÈ™el?torie.

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle.

The simple are meat for slaughter, to be used when they are useful in causing trouble for the opposing power, and to be sacrificed when they are no longer of use.

Mystical additions and subtractions always come out the way you want.

The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc. - so news drowns in a great sea of information.

It's not the news that makes the newspaper, but the newspaper that makes the news.

Pero los periódicos ¿siguen las tendencias de la gente o las crean? —Ambas cosas, señorita Fresia. La gente al principio no sabe qué tendencia tiene, luego nosotros se lo decimos y entonces la gente se da cuenta de que la tiene.

A scoundrel is an evil heliotrope turning always in the direction of the most powerful.

A paradoxical consequence: hidden behind every false conspiracy there's perhaps a conspiracy by someone who stands to gain from presenting it as true.

Sensing that I ought to become more closely involved in political matters, I realized the most attractive news to fabricate would be what these idle minds were expecting, rather than what the newspapers reported as solid fact.

L'insinuazione efficace è quella che riferisce fatti di per sé privi di valore, ancorché non smentibili perché veri.

Vale para el Pentágono y para la CIA, pero no me dirás que todas las revistas de coches dependen de los servicios secretos de la demoplutojudeocracia al acecho.

The most effective insinuation is the one that gives facts that are valueless in themselves, yet cannot be denied because they are true.

Basit insanlar kasapl?k hayvan gibidir; düÅŸmana sorun ç?karmaya yarad?klar? zaman kullan?l?rlar, art?k iÅŸe yaramaz olunca da kurban edilirler.

El caso es que los periódicos no están hechos para difundir sino para encubrir noticias. Sucede el hecho X, no puedes obviarlo, pero, como pone en apuros a demasiada gente, en ese mismo número te marcas unos titulones que le ponen a uno los pelos de punta: madre degüella a sus cuatro hijos, quizá nuestros ahorros acaben en cenizas

Cizvitler, dusmani sasirtmak icin en iyi yontemin gizli mezhepler yaratmak, tehlikeli heveslilerin bu mezheplere kosmalarini beklemek, sonra da tumunu tutuklamak oldugunu biliyorlardi. Baska bir deyisle, bir tuzaktan korkuyorsan, kendin kur tuzagi. Boylece tuzaga dusenler, senin denetimin altina girer.

L'italiano è infido, bugiardo, vile, traditore, si trova più a suo agio con il pugnale che con la spade, meglio con il veleno che col farmaco, viscido nella trattativa, coerente solo nel cambiar bandiera a ogni vento.

No sin cierto remordimiento, me sentía como un Stalin que ríe entre dientes mientras piensa: «Haced, haced, pobres bolcheviques, que yo sigo estudiando en el seminario de Tiflis y después del plan quinquenal me encargo yo.»

Ahora bien, desde el principio se construyen como enemigos no tanto a los que son diferentes y que nos amenazan directamente (como sería el caso de los bárbaros), sino a aquellos que alguien tiene interés en representar como amenazadores aunque no nos amenacen directamente, de modo que lo que ponga de relieve su diversidad no sea su carácter de amenaza, sino que sea su diversidad misma la que se convierta en señal de amenaza. Véase

An unhappy land, then, is one whose citizens no longer know where duty lies, and seek a charismatic leader who tells them what to do. Which, if I remember correctly, is what Hitler promulgated in Mein Kampf.

Ez ám a siker: általános választások útján hozni létre zsarnoki rendszert! Úgy hajtott végre önkényuralmi puccsot a nyomorult, hogy közben a birka népre hivatkozhatott! Láthatjuk, milyen jövÅ' vár a demokráciára.