Quotes About Manipulation

Only the Führer has the right to think, not that he has any great love of thinking—he prefers what he calls intuition.

Uno Stato nazionalsocialista non poteva tollerare che la vita fluisse liberamente: essa andava guidata in ogni suo passo. Per indirizzare il respiro delle persone, il loro senso materno, un circolo di lettori, le fabbriche, il canto, l'esercito o le gite estive ci volevano dei capi, delle guide. La vita aveva perso il diritto di crescere come l'erba e di incresparsi come il mare.

She took recourse to the expedient of constantly terrified children. She lied.

Machiavel a fait des petits. Louis Bonaparte en est un.

If omnipotent sadists had set out to take an extremely good, well-functioning piece of our political economy and social structure and make it undemocratic and oppressive, this is what their scheme would've looked like.

Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable. Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings. p.338

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? "I love you, too.

But they were masters of the mind game.

Those in power are those willing to do what it takes to gain power. While the context varies, depending on the region, the rule itself is inviolable.

America? It was being taken over by corrupt politicians, a mainstream media bent on whipping up divisions, and an Internet full of crazies.

We seduce the prayer out of them. I never take advantage of that power, unlike some. We are their religion, and they know it

Most ambassadors would be surprised to learn that some of the staff messages that are proposed to them for authorization to transmit were received from the ST almost verbatim in the form which his "staff " have given him to send back to Washington. This is a useful device for the ST because it gets a message of unquestioned authority from the ambassador into the Department of State and usually into Defense via attach channels.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

The government thinks the psychologists can keep the population under control.

Earth has been controlled by the man who owns the planet's fuel—Delbert John Rockecenter. His power is such that he can determine the political future of a country simply by making a telephone call to one of his minions.

Julian could spin a web of shadows around you, with touches like the brush of moth's wings and kisses soft as twilight. He could turn your own senses against you until the kisses left you dizzy and breathless and the moth's-wing touches put you on slow burn. And by the time you realized what was underneath the softness, you were shivering and melting and lost.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion, as of a traffic whose returns are uncertain, and in which 'tis usual to be cheated.

Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.

Men are never so easily deceived as when they are endeavoring to deceive others.

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Race, it turns out, is above all a politically useful fiction.