Quotes About Manipulation

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

What is translated from English and into English - and in what quantities - is a question of power.