Quotes About Manipulation

Het volkse verwarren met het democratische is de strategie van de democraat.

The Left does not always kill, but it always lies.

The newspaper collects the previous day's garbage in order to feed it to us for breakfast.

There are words for deceiving others, like "rational." And others, like "dialectic," for deceiving oneself.

De statistiek is het werktuig van wie afziet van het begrijpen om te kunnen manipuleren.

The passivity of things deceives us: we manipulate nothing with impudence without hurting a god.

La técnica induce insidiosamente a convertir sus categorías reguladoras de la acción en categorías constitutivas de la realidad.

Technology would present fewer dangers if manipulating it were not so simple for the imbecile and so profitable for the thief.

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

The process of rotating, stretching, and moving is called an affine transformation.

Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.

You know in this moment that Gabriel is at your mercy, you can do what you want, he is completely yours and with the knowledge of that something goes,you can feel it slip from you like a fish through the net.

He'll never do it again,' she swears, but he will because she'll let him. Now me? I've got no use for imitation love that packs a punch.

Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)

They've worked the absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely truth since the beginning of time. They foment destruction and chaos. It puts them in their happy place.

Catching others' feelings is why some people think that they have too much empathy; they are overly sensitive to others' feelings and as a result can feel taken over, manipulated, conned, and so on. Sufficient boundary strength permits you to be empathic without experiencing the negative effects. Until

Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire

Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.