Quotes About Manipulation

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Language has an ideological agenda that is apt to be hidden from view.

Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer.

How people pervert religious doctrine to serve their own needs.

Cao sent the battalions chasing long-gone foxes because he wanted to give the presidential palace the impression he was on the alert. Afterward he would order the battalion back to its base to "rest" instead of returning it to the training center. Training his men for combat was not one of Cao's priorities. He pretended they were already well trained.

The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.

Lying is about controlling someone else's reality, hoping that what they don't know won't hurt you.

He has to lie,' said Karen. 'He always lied. I hope he hasn't hurt you.

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.

And here comes in the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both; but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Soms vermomden ze zich als vrienden, dan deden ze aardig en gezellig en lieten ze je geloven dat je een van hen was en dan liet jij, stom rund, je verdediging varen en dan braken ze je hart door je te vernachelen. Vervolgens gooiden ze je weg als een kapot stuk speelgoed.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved

When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding us or controlling us. We're behind the wheel, but we can't be sure who's driving.

All around me is cowardice and deceit.

If canines can be conditioned to salivate over nonexistent food, may not men one day be likewise taught to salivate at the prospect of nonexistent facts?

2001 study by the Association of British Neurologists found thirty-five cases of neurological complications, including nine strokes, occurring within twenty-four hours of neck manipulation.