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Quotes About Manipulation

What Hitler did was advertise unoriginal ideas in an original way. He gave voice to phobias, prejudice, and resentment as no one else could. Others could say the same thing but make no impact at all. It was less what he said, than how he said it that counted. As it was to be throughout his 'career', presentation was what mattered.
~ Ian Kershaw
We've piled his plate high with shit," Fox conceded. "And not even tied a bib around his neck," Kaye added. "Is your afternoon grilling to be courtesy of a woman called Stoddart?
~ Ian Rankin
Maybe you'd best mention Steele and Edwards to your boss.' 'Why?' 'So he can pull them in for questioning, have a bit of fun with them.' 'You think I'd be that vindictive?' 'If not, I didn't teach you much.
~ Ian Rankin
Slim, I hope you ain't sexed that pretty bitch yet. Believe me, Slim, a pimp is really a whore who's reversed the game on whores. Slim, be as sweet as the scratch. Don't be no sweeter. Always stick a whore for a bundle before you sex her. A whore ain't nothing but a trick to a pimp. Don't let em Georgia you. Always get your money in front just like a whore. Whores in a stable are like working chumps in the white man's factory..
~ Iceberg Slim
He took the bait like a rapist in a nudist colony for the blind.
~ Iceberg Slim
croak us for free. He'd suck Nino's ass with a straw.
~ Iceberg Slim
Frederick Hertzberg begins his famous article "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?" as follows: "How many articles, books, speeches, and workshops have pleaded plaintively, 'How do I get an employee to do what I want him to do?'" (italics added). Read it again. Is Hertzberg speaking about motivation or manipulation? In
~ Unknown
People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
~ Idries Shah
The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
~ Idries Shah
Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.
~ Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Supporter: Someone who will say anything.
~ Idries Shah
The Sufi way of thinking is particularly appropriate in a world of mass communication, when every effort is directed towards making people believe that they want or need certain things; that they should believe certain things; that they should as a consequence do certain things that their manipulators want them to do.
~ Idries Shah
Recuerda que virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan gracias a tu codicia. Te atraen porque apelan a tu codicia.
~ Idries Shah
A la propaganda ya no le interesaba convencer, sino provocar una cacofonía sobre diferentes versiones para que no se estuviese seguro de nada.
~ Unknown
You will love this man. Do you understand? You will love him, serve him, and obey him in all things. This is your duty to me and to France. Am I clear?' Isabella is twelve years old and astoundingly pretty, a woman in a girl's body. She keeps her eyes on the floor and nods her head.
~ Colin Falconer
We have no witnesses, no proof. But someone evil is moving us around like chess pieces.
~ Colleen Coble
After experiencing all sorts of bizarre activity during his research on UFOs, John Keel formulated his "ultraterrestrial" hypothesis, which postulates that Earth has shared living space for millennia with other intelligent beings who interact with humans when they choose to, who are more intelligent than us, and who manipulate our physical and psychic reality for their own obscure agendas.
~ Unknown
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
~ Colum McCann
Behind every war stands those whom seek to gain from it.
~ Unknown
Manipulation is the most powerful and therefore is the deadliest of all weapons.
~ Unknown
I created you. Hence I have the right to do what I will with you. You have done me no harm, I admit. I make you suffer for my own pleasure.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?" she asked, tears shining in her eyes. "Power over you, little one," he said, smiling. "What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.
~ Conn Iggulden
Just as the kids are afraid of the dark, so too are grown ups scared of power. It lures, but, also, consumes. It's a game that mustn't never be taken lightly.
~ Conn Iggulden
If they love you, they will do what you wish,but only WHEN they want to. If they fear you, they will do what you wish EXACTLY when you wish. So, is it better to love or fear you?
~ Conn Iggulden