Quotes About Manipulation

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool.

No technique is possible when men are free.

Man is caught like a fly in a bottle. His attempts at culture, freedom, and creative endeavor have become mere entries in technique's filing cabinet.

That it is to be a dictatorship of test tubes rather than of hobnailed boots will not make it any less a dictatorship.

The poorest population The really poor cannot be subjected to integration propaganda because the immediate concern of daily life absorb all their capacities and efforts. To be sure, the poor can be pushed into rebellion, into to an explosion of violence; they can be subjected to agitation propaganda and excited to the point of theft and murder. But they cannot be trained by propaganda, kept to hand, channeled, or oriented.

Fascism is socialism which has been clever enough to fool the vigilance of the church, as no other socialism has done.

Rhetoric is perverted poetry.

On one side, media reports of high rise in Delta and Omnicron cases and on another side, EC allows roadshows, padyatras, rallies and processions till Jan'15. It shows that Corona does not go where election takes place . This is called fooling people by media & government

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." —Verbal Kint The Usual Suspects

I shall grow up to be a tall, graceful, and altogether beautiful woman, and I shall impose on large numbers of people my will and also, for my own amusement, great pain.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

It's easy these days to buy a nation, but it's quite difficult to take it by force.

Mike was very good at making sure all roads led to him. He set himself up very intelligently. He was the guy who could get your kids into the best private schools; he was the guy who could get you into the best hospitals. We didn't know it at the time, but he had a personal press guy, same one as Donald Trump—Howard Rubenstein—and this guy engineered a big Wall Street Journal story.

O homem não é o único animal que alimenta e cuida de suas crias. Mas é o único que depois usa isso para fazer chantagem emocional

poder blando y poder duro. Define el último como un poder que "asienta en incentivos (recompensas) y amenazas", sonde el primero se caracteriza por "lograr los resultados deseados atrayendo al otro en lugar de manipularlo o amenazarlo".

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

The simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he's not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.

Has he ever trapped you in a room and not let you out? Has he ever raised a fist as if he were going to hit you? Has he ever thrown an object that hit you or nearly did? Has he ever held you down or grabbed you to restrain you? Has he ever shoved, poked, or grabbed you? Has he ever threatened to hurt you? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then we can stop wondering whether he'll ever be violent; he already has been.

The central attitudes driving the Water Torturer are: You are crazy. You fly off the handle over nothing. I can easily convince other people that you're the one who is messed up. As long as I'm calm, you can't call anything I do abusive, no matter how cruel. I know exactly how to get under your skin.

Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.