Quotes About Manipulation

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

You can be dominant without the ball by trying to move the opposition where you want them to go.

Whenever people speak, you give the opposition the opportunity to use those words as they see fit.

If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.

The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.

I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.

The things that I was building on originally for the defense of our democracies had been completely inverted to really, in my view, attack our democracies.

We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.

In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.

Law and politics are often overly complicated because there are people that don't want the rest of us to know what's going on.

And that we, far from being its authors, or its operators, or even its slaves (for slaves are agents who can harbour hopes, however faint, that one day a Moses or a Spartacus will set them free), were no more than actions and commands within its key-chains.

The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.

Estaba asombrado de que le hubiera resultado tan fácil. Lo único que tenía que hacer era decirle a la gente lo que la gente quería oír, y te creían, por muy absurda que pudiera ser la historia que les explicaras. Y tres días y tres noches sin dormir habían aletargado los recelos y la capacidad de escepticismo del inspector Flint.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

You thought you were being sold a television, but it turns out that television is selling you.

42.9% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Fools are easily fooled.

People are more likely to accept your ideas if you tell them that Barack Obama said it first.

Some people say that Money Talks and BS Walks but I say that BS Talks and Money Walks!

To ruin someone it doesn't have to be true, it just has to be said.

Abraham Lincoln famously noted, it is possible to fool some individuals all the time and all individuals some of the time, but it's not feasible to fool all individuals all the time.