Quotes About Manipulation

They keep us fighting among ourselves like dogs for table scraps so we won't catch them making off with the feast.

Power—most power anyway, certainly Vidalia's brand of it—was the fly that called itself a hawk. It could only govern those who agreed to call it a hawk instead of a fly, a tiger instead of a cat, a king instead of a man.

way. Of profit. Of philosophy. Of a worldview that said rules apply only to the people who aren't in charge of making them.

There are two ways to choke off free expression. We've already discussed one of them: clamp down on free speech and declare some topics off-limits. That strategy is straightforward enough. The other, more insidious way to limit free expression is to try to change the very language people use.

These three steps offer a classic presentation of the way people are often led to do wrong: Exaggerate, then denigrate the other side's motive, then promise a reward.

forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

I felt deeply betrayed that the man I depended on as friend, protector, and lover intended to do such a thing to me. And my sense of self-preservation was quietly terrified at the thought of submitting myself to the mercies of someone who handled a fifteen-pound claymore as though it were a flywhisk.

If you don't," she said sweetly, "I'll tell my father you made improper advances to me. He'll have the skin flayed off your back.

I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

Nobody does more identity politics than Donald Trump.

In politics, the money man is usually the dumbest person in the room.

If you sign up for TV, expect the edit to make things interesting.

TV can edit things to make anyone look good or bad.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

The opportunism of electoral politics makes people lie to each other.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.

nunca te fíes de quienes dicen servir a Dios. Te hablarán con serenidad y buenas palabras, tan cultas que no alcanzarás a entenderlas. Tratarán de convencerte con argumentos que sólo ellos saben hilvanar hasta adueñarse de tu razón y tu conciencia.

The old man stroked a finger over a wooden charm hung around [redacted]'s chest on a leather cord. -{redacted] believed it would protect you. Whether it did is immaterial. It was something [redacted] could give, and in return, that gave [redacted] courage. It gave [redacted] faith. But all emotions are chemically mediated and may be manipulated. Every drunk, every lover, any ecstatic mystic knows that. There is no heart without the head.-

This property of reversibility in dynamics leads, however, to a difficulty whose full significance was realized only with the introduction of quantum mechanics. Manipulation and measurement are essentially irreversible. Active science is thus, by definition, extraneous to the idealized, reversible world it is describing.

Certain folks start playing Sindh Card despite having ravaged the life of the common Sindhi.

Ethnic-based politics is being used to exhort people, to serve own ends - this is anathema to concept of nationalism.

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