Quotes About Manipulation

You're the most extraordinary man I ever met with. One would think you had done nothing all your life but take people in. Captain Wragge received that unconscious tribute to his native genius with the complacency of a man who felt that he thoroughly deserved it.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.

History," [Voltaire] concludes, "is after all nothing but a pack of tricks which we play upon the dead";40 we transform the past to suit our wishes for the future, and in the upshot "history proves that anything can be proved by history.

Be lavish in your promises," Quintus advised; "men prefer a false promise to a flat refusal. . . . Contrive to get some new scandal aired against your rivals for crime, corruption, or immorality."43

It may be true, as Lincoln supposed, that "you can't fool all the people all the time," but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. Is

In such cases the motives of the (usually hidden) leaders may be economic, but the result is largely determined by the passions of the mass.

Education has spread, but intelligence is perpetually retarded by the fertility of the simple. A cynic remarked that "you mustn't enthrone ignorance just because there is so much of it." However, ignorance is not long enthroned, for it lends itself to manipulation by the forces that mold public opinion. It may be true, as Lincoln supposed, that "you can't fool all the people all the time," but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

It is not necessary to dig one's own grave. There are always others willing to dig it for you.' It's an old Cantonese proverb.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.

Nothing was more tiresome than a candidate who started to believe his own spin.

politician twenty-two years her senior, had been calculated, strategized, and arranged. It was

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

He who has suffer'd you to impose on him knows you.

Romer's idea, like all good ideas, was very simple: false information can be just as useful, influential, as telling, transforming or as damaging as true information.

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

It is not a conspiracy, don't call it a conspiracy. It is all out in the open and it stands on the ignorance, apathy and stupidity of the American people that is the foundation upon which the New World Order is built.

Then the town was sorry with being glad, as people sometimes are sorry for those whom they have at last forced to do as they wanted them to.

Hitler had had entirely too brilliant a graphics department, and had understood the power of branding all too well.

Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people.

Once again, then," she said, "the divide between the ambitions of conspirators and the desire, among those bringing us word of those ambitions, to preserve whatever aspect of the status quo they themselves hold dear.

But, Hubertus, Cayce offers, what if Dorothea is... Yes? He leans forward, palms flat on the table. A vicious lying cunt? Bigend giggles, a deeply alarming sound. Well, he says, we are in the business of advertising, after all. He smiles.

Guys, I'm gonna pretend like all of you are incapacitated or unconscious. And if none of you makes a move, I'll be leaving you to your own resources. Otherwise, this drone's detonating its onboard explosives. As the only one of us who's not physically present, I've got zero fucks to give about how that goes. Your call. [Conner]