Quotes About Manipulation

Working for Mab now, are you, Wolfman?" he smirked. "Like a good little attack dog? Will you also roll over and beg if she asks?

Did I hurt you in the parking lot?""No, m'lady. I fell, so I could put a tracker on your car."Great.

Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts.

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past. Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now?

He who controls the past controls the future.

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

Beware of those who attribute petty instructions to God.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.