Quotes About Manipulation

Mercerism is a swindle.' The whole experience of empathy is a swindle.

Questi romanzieri conoscono un milione di trucchi. Prendete il dottor Goebbels; è così che ha cominciato, scrivendo narrativa.

The hallmark of the fraudulent is that it becomes what you would like it to be.

Half to himself, Fat said, He causes things to look different so it would appear time has passed.

Art, like theology, a packaged fraud.

Posiblemente quiero que muera porque ya no lo quiero; ya no le necesito más. De forma deliberada me involucré contigo (...) sin mostrar ninguna preocupación por terceros, ni siquiera por ti, para conseguirte, porque eres un buen material como marido y yo necesito un marido nuevo ahora que he agotado al anterior. Y si te quedas conmigo, te trataré igual que lo traté a él. Volverá a ser lo mismo otra vez.

Apuesto a que te dijo que fue el destino el que te trajo aquí, ¿verdad? Creen que son peones en manos de seres superiores, cuando en realidad son peones en manos de sus propias subconscientes, que se han desbocado.

If you don't buy, they'll kill you. The perfect sales-pitch. Buy or die—new slogan.

Der Geist eines Junkies ist wie die Musik, die du aus dem Radiowecker hörst - manchmal klingt sie ja ganz hübsch, aber sie ist nur dazu da, dich zu etwas Bestimmtem zu veranlassen. Die Musik aus dem Radiowecker soll dich aufwecken; die Musik des Junkies soll dich in ein Werkzeug zur Beschaffung von immer mehr Stoff verwandeln.

When they want you they already have you; all they need is the paperwork.

They always said the way to sell something was create anxiety in people. Create a sense of insecurity— tell them they smell bad or look funny. But this makes a joke out of deodorant and hair oil. You can't escape this. If you don't buy, they'll kill you. The perfect sales-pitch.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

in Phyllis' world there was no room for the harmless.

If you wanted to divert a mighty river into a different course, and all you had was a single pebble, you could do it, as long as you put the pebble in the right place to send the first trickle of water that way instead of this.

That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.

She was learning that if she pretended to be weak and frightened, and dabbed at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief, she could turn aside all manner of pressing questions.

Instead, we should delicately and subtly undermine the idea that truth and facts are possible in the first place. Once the people have become doubtful about the truth of anything, all kinds of things will be open to us.

Which made her barefaced lies all the more effective, Lord Asriel thought with disgust; she lied in the very marrow of her bones.

Así procede la iglesia; todas hacen lo mismo: controlar, destruir y erradicar cualquier sensación placentera.

ACTRESS: Nonsense! It was an automaton controlled by the boy's mesmeric waves as part of a plot organised by my rivals.

And Lord Asriel has a way special to himself of bringing about what he wants, he just has to call for something and—

To have enslaved America with this hocuspocus! To have captured the mind of the world's greatest nation without uttering a single word of truth! Oh, the pleasure we must be affording the most malevolent man on earth! Philip Roth (2004-09-06T16:00:00+00:00). The plot against America (Kindle Locations 4887-4888). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

America? said Gamesh, smiling. Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people.

Bullies love to summarize.