Quotes About Manipulation

It's like this essential feature of human beings simply doesn't exist in the full-color magazine world.

she knows she can control this, it's the control that gives her pleasure, at first.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

People without memory are putty.

in moments of crisis, people are willing to hand over a great deal of power to anyone who claims to have a magic cure—whether the crisis is a financial meltdown or, as the Bush administration would later show, a terrorist attack.

The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions

This was the Bad Science strategy in a nutshell: plant complaints in op-ed pieces, in letters to the editor, and in articles in mainstream journals to whom you'd supplied the "facts," and then quote them as if they really were facts. Quote, in fact, yourself. A perfect rhetorical circle. A mass media echo chamber of your own construction.

When posed to journalists, however, the loaded questions did the trick: they convinced people who didn't know otherwise that there was still a lot of doubt about the whole matter. The industry had realized that you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions, even if you actually knew the answers and they didn't help your case.

They would not sit idly by while their product was vilified; instead, they would create a Tobacco Industry Committee for Public Information to supply a "positive" and "entirely 'pro-cigarette'" message to counter the anti-cigarette scientific one. As the U.S. Department of Justice would later put it, they decided "to deceive the American public about the health effects of smoking.

Sorry, Mom, I've got a new phrase. When you can't rise above, sink below—and drag them all down with you. "I'm really sorry, ma'am," I say, amping up the sincerity in my voice. "It's just that your personality is so flat and lifeless, I mistook you for the table.

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

in this life we are either kings or pawns emperors and fools

In this life, we are either kings or pawns, Emperors or fools

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest

C'est avec des hochets que l'on mène les hommes." Napoléon Bonaparte à propos de la légion d'honneur, qu'il institua en 1802.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

I am the instrument of providence, she will use me as long as I accomplish her designs, then she will break me like a glass.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..