Quotes About Manipulation

Eine ideale Lüge besteht aus der Aneinanderreihung verschiedener wahrer Versatzstücke, an denen man bestimmte Auslassungen vornimmt; im Grunde genommen setzt sie sich im Wesentlichen aus Auslassungen in Verbindung mit einigen wohldosierten Übertreibungen zusammen.

Ça faisait partie des consignes officielles, de commencer par infantiliser les proches?

Parfois on se fait instrumentaliser, comme moi je me fait instrumentaliser aussi, tout le monde se fait instrumentaliser. Evidemment, on dit regardez comme la presse est libre - elle invite des individus qui critiquent la presse donc ça veut bien dire qu'on est libre, mais je suis pas dupe du fait que non, je suis la caution qui permet à la presse de dire qu'elle est libre alors qu'elle ne l'est pas. LCI M.Onfray 10/05/17 11m40

L'image est douée d'une force mauvaise. Elle n'est pas la servante dévouée et fidèle que tu voudrais. Elle prend toutes les apparences d'une servante, oui, mais en vérité elle est sournoise, menteuse et impérieuse. Elle aspire de toute sa mauvaiseté à te reduire en esclavage.

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

What constitutes charm? A presence, a capacity to command attention, an innate conviction of one's own uniqueness, combined, as often as not, with the more manipulative ability of making the interlocutor believe he has one's undivided attention and has gained a certain indefinable something from the encounter.

What's wrong is using other people to make yourself feel important

Pragmatic and clever, he was quite Machiavellian in his approach: "It is better to be feared than loved," he'd say. "Hide your vulnerabilities . . ." "Pick your own time and place for confrontations . . ." "Be truthful but not offensive.

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

Men like that — when they know they won't be found out — they will do anything.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' VOLTAIRE

Two of us could play the lying game.

we can't control what other people do,

evil people stick together.

He did not want the girlfriends any longer but he also did not want anyone else to have them. This is yet another example of a serial killer treating his victims like objects because of a lack of socialisation during the latency phase.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

Basta con hacerse buenas cuñas y de nombre. El médico del Señor Presidente por aquí... El médico del Señor Presidente por allá... Y eso sí, ya ves; eso sí ya es ser algo...

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the others

Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

En esta España de calzonazos —decía— los curas manejan a las mujeres y las mujeres a los hombres...

La palabra, este producto social, se ha hecho para mentir.

We today live on a planet of "robots" directed and managed by the Jews towards a tragic fatal end, towards the abyss and chaos.

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media. They are easily manipulated by demagogues, pacified by entertainers, and exploited by anyone who has something to sell.