Quotes About Manipulation

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.

If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.

Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.

A fool friend always does something that the enemy wishes.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.

So many girls fall in love with the wrong guys, simply because the wrong guys say the right things.

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.