Quotes About Manipulation

she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the first to speak.

The anaesthetic effect of custom being destroyed, I would begin to think and to feel very melancholy things. The door-handle of my room, which was different to me from all the other doorhandles in the world, inasmuch as it seemed to open of its own accord and without my having to turn it, so unconscious had its manipulation become; lo and behold, it was now an astral body for Golo. And

If an EHM is completely successful, the loans are so large that the debtor is forced to default on its payments after a few years. When this happens, then like the Mafia we demand our pound of flesh. This often includes one or more of the following: control over United Nations votes, the installation of military bases, or access to precious resources such as oil or the Panama Canal. Of course, the debtor still owes us the money—and another country is added to our global empire.

Fear and debt. The two most powerful tools of empire." He

the Canadian government – the power of each of us as citizens – has been and still is breaking the law. Breaking it by misusing it – by resorting to avoidance, by pretending to be doing what it isn't, by legalistic and administrative manipulation, by malingering. These are standard tricks far beneath the dignity of the Crown. For

You're saying the media is dangerous, immoral, and antidemocratic?" "Well . . . yes," Henderson said. "They don't recognize it in themselves, but they're basically criminals. In the classic sense of that word.

They both knew what they were thinking, though neither said it: Taryn Grant had what it took to be president. She had the business background, she understood economics and finance, she had the money wrapped up, she looked terrific, she had a mind that understood the necessary treacheries: a silken Machiavelli.

How many people have figured out that if you lie enough, and loud enough, people will start to believe?

John Sandford

It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy.

When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.

It's conspiracy mongering." "I agree. But not all conspiracies crop up because someone forgot to adjust their tinfoil hat, ma'am. Sometimes they're part of a disinformation campaign.

A newspaper publisher. In the late 1800s the United States and Spain were warming up for a war over Cuba, and Hearst sent an illustrator to Cuba to make pictures of the event. When the illustrator got there, he sent a telegram to Hearst saying that as far as he could see, there was no war coming and that he was going home. Hearst sent back that he should stay and said, 'You furnish the pictures, and I will furnish the war.' And he did.

They both came away from the meeting feeling like they had manipulated the other precisely, which meant it was a good meeting.

So they sealed Earth off from the rest of humanity to keep the people there from knowing just how perfectly they're being held in stasis. Manufactured a disease-they called it the Crimp-and told the people on Earth it was an alien infection. Used it as an excuse to quarantine the planet. They let it flare up every generation or two just to maintain the pretense.

It takes a special kind of pathetic loser to help someone you hate just to make his girlfriend happy, I thought.

DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY'LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT.

And indeed her minister seemed gratified that she went exactly where he needed her to go. They both came away from the meeting feeling like they had manipulated the other precisely, which meant it was a good meeting.

It's not like the countess doesn't already know we're fucking." Fundapellonan blinked at this. "What?" "I assumed she told you I like to fuck around, so you should get with me to see if I would say anything useful while we banged." "Is that what you really think is going on here?" Fundapellonan asked. "Isn't it?" "Well, yes," Fundapellonan admitted. "But you're not supposed to think it.

Almost anyone could be Fascist under the right circumstances. If they get scared enough. It's because, you see, most people live their lives like sleepwalkers. They're not really awake, though they think they are. And sleepwalkers are easily lead. That's why we have to fight so hard. Because it never quite goes away.

the so-called free world was a dictatorship that used media and conformist conditioning to enforce its dominion.

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

The fool supply was controlled...

Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also––either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.