Quotes About Manipulation

Noncommunist ranks must be infiltrated, penetrated, and subverted. The success of the communist mission depends on capturing the enemy's stronghold from within.

process of "automatic osmosis" — the seeping of predigested thoughts along the Party line into all subordinate minds, disciplined to accept. The members become ideological sleepwalkers, drugged into complete obedience by an unconscious discipline.

the thunder and bombast of what passes for news programming today--Motto: All terror, all the time

had simply wanted them to be ignorant, so they wouldn't be aware of what a fiend he really was.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

Brianna says. "You're a good professor." She condescends through tears.

Like the expanse of space, the mind [in its intrinsic nature] transcends intellect. Let it remain in its relaxed nature, without directing or settling it, for mind without a manipulated focus represents Mah?mudr?; By deepening intimacy with it, one will attain supreme enlightenment.

In our existing political conditions, when everybody agrees about something, it is generally untrue.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

When armies begin to move and flags wave and slogans pop up watch out little guy because it's somebody else's chestnuts in the fire not yours.

The worst criminals on earth are those who toy with love.

My mother denied later that they treated me like this. She has a very convenient way of forgetting and rearranging the past to fit whatever view she currently wishes to promote, much like the history changers in George Orwell's 1984. She now knows very little about me, but makes up stories so as to seem closer to me than she truly is. It gains her more attention.

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

It happens sometimes. A man is made chieftain and, soon all that is important to him is his status. He becomes deaf to any voice that doesn't try to soothe and cosset him. Before long, he only listens to those who tell him what he wants to hear.

Nobody is more indoctrinated than the indoctrinator.

wealth is power" – not because wealth automatically gives its owner political power, but because it gives him or her control of other people's labour.

they sell dollar bills for seventy-five cents and take credit for how fast they're growing.

Try to imagine the calamity of that: Zack, age twenty-eight, with no management experience, gets training from Dave, a weekend rock guitarist, on how to apply a set of fundamentally unsound psychological principles as a way to manipulate the people who report to him.

On the Internet, ginning up fake grassroots support is called astroturfing, and the tactic is generally frowned upon. I'm

Online marketers have invented euphemisms to make the work they do sound less awful. For example, we're told that our email campaigns do not involve badgering people, or pestering them - rather, we're "nurturing" them. "Lead nurturing is a big thing in the world of online marketing.

In addition to pool installers and flower shops, our customers include people who make a living bombarding people with email offers, or gaming Google's search algorithm, or figuring out which kind of misleading subject line is most likely to trick someone into opening a message. Online marketing is not quite as sleazy as Internet porn, but it's not much better, either.