Quotes About Manipulation

A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

Lead 'em around and around,'' said Joad. "Sling 'em in the irrigation ditch. Tell 'em they'll burn in hell if they don't think like you. What the hell you want to lead 'em someplace for? Jus' lead 'em.

She told the best lie of all—the truth.

Good," he said. "A group. Mary and you and the two kids. Subject: men—their weakness and stupidity and how to use them.

A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes--will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

Din vânzarea maÈ™inilor a înv??at È™i el m?car atâta: ofer?-i clientului ceva ce nu vrea, ca s?-i par? mai atr?g?tor ceea ce-È™i doreÈ™te doar pe jum?tate

she was exaggerating the severity of her condition in order to crave sympathy.  Yet

He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

Here was the puppeteer who was pulling strings all over the Empire. Didn't he know that the Fates were the only ones who could tweak the threads of destiny?

No.' Dorren shifted onto his knees, leaning towards her. 'This is just the beginning, you'll see. You are his weakness and you will ruin everything.

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive.

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

Social control is best managed through fear.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.