Quotes About Manipulation

You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.

Tony Blair is like an actor who doesn't really believe in his script himself but has the incredible skill to make everyone else believe in it.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire.

Framed to make women false.

T requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.

Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves. As compensation for their labours men are given periodic use of a woman's vagina.

'Oh yes,' he thinks, 'Women. With their subversive sexual tactics have no place in this game. It is no accident that the queen is the deadliest of pieces; the manly pawn: the weakest.'

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

And that's all this Prime Minister needed, a nice multi-syllable word like destabilization to turn it into a fucking jingle. But he threw us on the defensive in a way that I'll make sure never happens again. Of course the only people listening was Penthouse magazine. Goddamn, what does it mean when the conscience of America airbrushes pussy for a living?

Then the white man talk about how some people trying to use smooth talk to win people over and how totalitarianism always happens with consent and we nod like we understand.

They like him better when he was the poor cousin that they can feel good for taking notice. I tell him that politician do the same thing to me when they realize me can read.

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

recipients of such praise do work harder, but only initially. Once they sense the manipulation behind the appreciation, their productivity drops.

Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments, however positive, and are sometimes intended to manipulate the behaviour of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.