Quotes About Manipulation

The dictators of the world say that if you tell a lie often enough, why, people will believe it. Well, if you tell the truth often enough, they'll believe it and go along with you.

You count snouts," Straha said. "Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

Lie really could be construed as the art of illusion by some people.

make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities,'" Hunter murmured.

you're told a lie often enough, that lie becomes not the truth, but a truth you can come to believe. However

Take care, Kiernan, with me. Test your powers on that charming almost-fiancé of yours, but not on me. Anything you start, Kiernan, I'll finish.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you please. —Mark Twain

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.

I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.

The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose--the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

The ability to persuade not only one's people but also allies and enemies was a vital attribute of the successful strategist. In this way, strategy required a combination of words and deeds, and the ability to manipulate them both.

The point at which God asserted his greatness to his chosen people was when he arranged the escape of the Jews from Egypt, where they were kept as slaves. One reading of the story of Exodus is that it was not so much about freeing the Israelites from slavery as about asserting God's greatness by establishing a people beholden to him and ensuring that they—and others—were in awe of his power. Under this interpretation, the Exodus story becomes a gigantic manipulation.

El poder para hacer daño es poder para negociar. La capacidad para explotarlo se llama diplomacia, una diplomacia perversa, pero diplomacia».

Maquiavelo—, representados en la fuerza y la astucia.

Deception also turned out to be a vital strategic quality. It involved deliberately sending untrue signals with a view to changing another's behavior.

Nadie está intentando matarme con engaños».

Although 'Machiavellian' has become synonymous with strategies based on deceit and manipulation, Machiavelli's approach was actually far more balanced. He understood that the more the prince was perceived to rely on devious methods, the less likely it would be that they succeeded. The wise strategist would seek to develop a foundation for the exercise of power that went beyond false impressions and harsh punishments, and onto real accomplishments and general respect.

hay tres aspectos elementales en la estrategia humana y que son comunes a lo largo del tiempo y el espacio. Esos tres aspectos son el engaño, las alianzas y el uso instrumental de la violencia.

El mayor poder es el que consigue que se haga lo que pretende sin que nadie se dé cuenta.

Men are so simple, and so much creatures of circumstance, that the deceiver will always find somebody ready to be deceived.

the art of creating power

Don't you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? —George Orwell,

It is the art of creating power.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right