Quotes About Manipulation

A sociedade de consumo é programação 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.

Ever notice there are no clocks in stores? It's like casinos; they don't want you to know how much time you've spent dropping your quarters.

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.

Lou Priolo defines manipulation as "an attempt to gain control of another individual or situation by inciting an emotional reaction rather than a biblical response from that individual

tácticas fundamentales y estratagemas (Cialdini, 1984, Watzlawick, 22012) que

atados por vínculos invisibles a nuestro miedo, somos, al mismo tiempo, marionetas y titiriteros, víctimas de nuestras expectativas».

A linguagem acha-se toda ensopada de mentiras.

Actualmente el pueblo soberano «opina» sobre todo en función de cómo la televisión le induce a opinar. Y en el hecho de conducir la opinión, el poder de la imagen se coloca en el centro de todos los procesos de la política contemporánea.

As possibly no other politician in our time, Hitler understood the art of public speaking, of pauses, of silence, of inducing, inciting and inflaming passion. "I am ashamed of it now," said Speer, "but at the time, I found him deeply exciting.

No novo mundo, portanto, a política é centrífuga. Não se trata mais de unir eleitores em torno do denominador comum, mas, ao contrário, de inflamar as paixões do maior número possível de grupelhos para, em seguida, adicioná-los – mesmo à revelia deles. As

C'est uniquement si tu maintiens les apparences que tu peux faire ce que tu veux.

Temptation's less about wearing someone down with repetition than it is about finding the right phrase and dropping it in at the right time.

progressives start small. They introduce 'commonsense' regulations and restrictions that will supposedly save lives. Then, each time the public's attention is captured, they push further.

Partisan politicians] seek to incite political support or raise money by pitting us against each other on issues . . . because they know that by igniting heated arguments, the issues are less likely to be solved and their careers are more likely to be secure. Every time you vote "against" someone rather than "for" someone the two-party system wins and America loses.

Control the language and you control the argument.

The controllists sometimes get angry when critics suggest that "state led" is a bit of a fabrication.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

Discrediting the messenger as a misfit to discredit the message is an old ploy when it comes to whistle-blowing, and it often works. The

Radical expansions of power are often introduced in this way, by persuading people that they affect just a specific, discrete group.

When she visited me in New York during her sixties and seventies, she always told taxi drivers that she was eighty years old ("so they will tell me how young I look"), and convinced theater ticket sellers that she had difficulty in hearing long before she really did ("so they'll give us seats in the front row").

Both truth and falsity rule the world. Falsity by virtue of numbers and truth by virtue of control.

Falsity is the most powerful thing on earth. Truth is the most valuable thing in the world.

The problem is that we tend to forget that lies are always presented as the truth, not that people hate the truth.