Quotes About Manipulation

He was watching me scientifically; there was no emotion in him at all. There was an assessing gleam in the hooded black eyes, a satiric set to his mouth, and I knew with fatal clarity that I had been duped. The rapturous tenderness was only a ploy to win my response

Terrorism's religion is politics. It's about interests. Look at who benefits.

This is a bit like bribing the other team's best players to leave the pitch as soon as you start the match! Not much of a game!)

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid

You can't argue with the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.

This calls for a very special plan of psychology and extreme violence

The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.

It is nothing new to find that the sublime becomes the cover for something low. That is how potential victims are kept in line.

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.

Original sin—that is to say, the sin of having been born with human nature that contains within it the temptation to evil—will always make a mockery of attempts at perfection based upon manipulation of the environment.

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

The way to a tyrant's heart is through a doctorate

É da natureza dos regimes plebiscitários que sejam realizados plebiscitos até a população acertar a resposta que o líder ou a elite bem-pensante tem por correta; nesse caso, nenhum plebiscito ulterior se faz necessário – ao menos acerca do mesmo tema.

that since both the British policeman and the Nazi storm trooper wore a uniform, the British policeman was a brute. It is one of the chief characteristics of modern rhetoric, designed not so much to find the truth as (in the words of former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam) to 'maintain your rage.

An actor or actress in politics is very dangerous because politics exaggerate the native dramatic instinct with the intoxication of substantive command.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.

What I cannot understand about the Russian is the way he will lie when he knows perfectly well that you know he is lying.

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs.

Flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship, degrading but profitable to him who flatters.