Quotes About Manipulation

This criminal government doesn't want guns in the hands of people who can think for themselves.

Secret knowledge equals power, with the end result being control.

In order to express the reality of my past, I would have to reach a public whose point of reference was deliberately distorted through social engineering.

but men who feign helplessness—which Oberlin specialized in—can be just as manipulative as alpha males because they use their incompetence to free themselves of menial tasks that are then saddled onto women.

No one sits, as you do, so close to a king, who does not begin to grasp how the levers of power work, and the cost of the oil that must grease them.

If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness

In NEWSPEAK, words like honor, justice, morality, democracy, science, and religion are eliminated entirely, being replaced by a single new word, CRIMETHINK,

Instead we will see an increase in a sophisticated, nonviolent form of crime: the counterfeiting of credit cards and the manipulation of the computer programs that carry out transfers of monetary credit.

Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

The Great Bitch is the deadly female, a worthy opponent for the omnipotent hero to exercise his powers upon and through. She is desirous, greedy, clever, dishonest, and two jumps ahead all the time. The hero may either have her on his side and like a lion-tamer sool her on to his enemies, or he may have to battle for his life at her hands.

Lies are vile things, with a horrible life of their own. They contaminate the truth that surrounds them.

Probably the commonest form of non-criminal rape is rape by fraud - by phoney tenderness or false promises of an enduring relationship, for example.

What flatterers say, try to make true.

Fredric Drum hadde definitivt ristet av seg de siste rester av godtroenhet og mildhet overfor det bedrageriske skinn som kaltes «tilfeldigheter».

Non si conosce mai chi si vuole, ma chi si deve o chi capita, secondo che una mano sleale ci rimescoli, accozzi e sparigli, disponendo o cassando a suo grado gli appuntamenti sui canovacci dei suoi millenni.

Certo oscilla fra contrattempi e incastri senza numero il gioc'a tombola della nostra vita. Non si conosce mai chi si vuole, ma chi si deve o chi capita, secondo che una mano sleale ci rimescoli, accozzi e sparigli, disponendo o cassando a suo grado gli appuntamenti sui canovacci dei suoi millenni.

Los hombres ambiciosos que afectan señoría en sus ciudades, ábrense en ellas rumbo mostrándose parciales de la muchedumbre, y halagándola con ciertos simulacros o apariencias de libertad.

Chiunque detenga il potere può controllare anche il linguaggio, e non solo con le proibizioni della censura, ma cambiando il significato delle parole".

She looked slick as hell; polished, neat, and with that feminine deadliness that can drive you nuts. They work on it till they get complete control of the situation. There's no use trying to break them down. They've made it.

Colonel Sir Guy Wethered's thoughts were still peculiar as he watched his guest open the door for his young wife. Danger had always stimulated him. And this might be danger of a new kind. "I made her marry me", he brooded. "And I'll damn well make her stay married to me. Whether she wants to or whether she doesn't." Not that there could be any real danger from Rusty. All the same…

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Com a mídia-político, os cidadãos são infantilizados, já não se engajam na vida pública, são alienados, manipulados por gadgets e imagens, a democracia é "desnaturada" e "pervertida".

A sociedade de consumo é programada do cotidiano: ela manipula e quadricula racionalmente a vida individual e social em todos os seus interstícios; tudo se torna artifício e ilusão a serviço do lucro capitalista e das classes dominantes.