Quotes About Manipulation

Careful,' he said, 'Information can liberate but also imprisonate....

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Cuando estalló el caso Marco, mucha gente dedujo que, dado que Marco había mentido sobre su estancia en el campo de Flossenbürg, había mentido sobre todo lo demás. Es una deducción errónea, que delata una ignorancia espectacular sobre la naturaleza de las buenas mentiras y los buenos mentirosos: los buenos mentirosos no sólo trafican con mentiras, sino también con verdades, y las grandes mentiras se fabrican con pequeñas verdades;

Lo único que sé es que los políticos no son ni de derechas ni de izquierdas: son sólo políticos. Lo único que les interesa es el poder.

los buenos mentirosos no sólo trafican con mentiras, sino también con verdades, y las grandes mentiras se fabrican con pequeñas verdades;

A bully wants you to cower or blush or run away in embarrassment. If you want to reverse the power, try pretending deep affection with just a little bit of pity.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion.

Are the mass media on the side of the power in the manipulation of the masses, or are they on the side of the masses in the liquidation of meaning, in the violence perpetrated on meaning, and in fascination? Is it the media that induce fascination in the masses, or is it the masses who direct the media into the spectacle?

There is no longer any difference between the economic and the political, because the same language reigns in both, from one end to the other; a society therefore where the political economy, literally speaking, is finally fully realized.

Action or exaction? Voting, petitions, solidarity, information, human rights: all these things are gently extorted from you in the form of personal or promotional blackmail.

We are simplified by technical manipulation

We are simplified by technical manipulation. And this manipulation goes off on a crazy course when we reach digital manipulation

The corruption of power is to inscribe into the real everything which is found in dreams….

The perfect criminal is the one who lays claim to the crime he has not committed. Who conceals his innocence behind the mask of crime. He is much harder to unmask.

Stalin's double. Since he wasn't a perfect likeness, they touched him up using plastic surgery, after which they eliminated all his relatives and all the witnesses to the operation. He played his role so well that in the end he came to think he was Stalin (as did Stalin himself!). At that point they sent him to the Gulag. But so well did he identify with his role that, on learning of Stalin's death, he died three days later.

One who lets others believe is always superior to one who believes, or makes others believe.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand … We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Tu dis que tu aimes les fleurs et tu leur coupes la queue, tu dis que tu aimes les chiens et tu leur mets une laisse, tu dis que tu aimes les oiseaux et tu les mets en cage, tu dis que tu m'aimes alors moi j'ai peur.

Apprenez que tout flatteur Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute : Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute. Flatterers thrive on fools' credulity. The lesson's worth a cheese, don't you agree?

Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan - or so he made her believe.

Vi a Antoinette tendida en cama, absolutamente inmóvil. Como una muñeca. Incluso cuando me amenazó con la botella, había en ella cierta calidad de marioneta.

Very often history is a means of denying the past. Denying the past is to refuse to recognise its integrity. To fit it, force it, function it, to suck out the spirit until it looks the way you think it should. We are all historians in our small way.