Quotes About Manipulation

This knowledge is power and you should be empowered, especially when it comes to politicians who will say anything to get your vote.

Play the victim card to attain power, then, once you have it, use it to shield yourself from legitimate criticism.

I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity." - Weisshaupt

There is absolutely nothing sacred about freedom of information," he said, "when it can be used to undermine social progress.

Anyone who believes they have converted a person simply because they have silenced them is badly mistaken We must try not to be drawn into the game of deceiving the deceivers

Give an economist a result you want, and he'll find the numbers to justify it.

She works in the intelligence field. They're trained to lie and sell it like the truth. They obviously undergo the same indoctrination as politicians.

the business of politics, which essentially meant screwing others before they got around to screwing you.

cut there. He instantly knew what Patti had done.

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible.

He (John Puller) wanted to intimidate. Intimidated people with a guilty conscience often made mistakes.

more. Lee had done this so many times that he could have closed his eyes and his fingers would carry on, manipulating his tools of felony with enviable precision. Lee had already

Life was a shell game. The winners could just hide the truth better than everybody else.

the parlance of the perception management field, the world had firmly entered the "gripper" stage, where the majority of people embraced as true everything they were told. It was far easier to accomplish this than most would care or dare to believe. It was easy to manipulate people. Folks had been doing it pretty much forever with results that had taken the world right to the edge of destruction.

The media can be controlled.

get information to sell, or blackmail them with.

Across the room he had placed a mirror he'd found in her bathroom on a table. It was angled so that he could see her face reflected in it, while he remained hidden from her.

messing with you. I'm just trying to

have under his thumb powerful congressmen, senators, even the vice president himself

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible. - John Puller

The wrong words make you listen in this criminal world. - Fantastic Voyage

the fans interfered with the radar so they were turned off

It was called 'the Big Lie' technique, Johnny. Just sound like you know what you're talking about—as if you're citing real facts. Talk very fast. Weave your lies into the shape of a conspiracy theory and repeat your assertions over and over again. Those who want an excuse to hate or blame—those with big but weak egos—will leap at a simple, neat explanation for the way the world is. Those types will never call you on the facts.

it's obvious to anyone that 5,000 golf buddies in an incestuous CEO caste can much more plausibly connive in secret with parasitic Wall Streeters, casino moguls, Mafiosi, "ex"-KGB agents and inheritance brats. The very folks who want populist rallies pouring hate at both people of color and smart folks.