Quotes About Manipulation

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

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

She's a self-conscious vampire ... and she goes about using sex as a sort of shrimping net.

She forgot the three F's," Julia whispered to Sara Moulton: "Feed 'em, fuck 'em, and flatter 'em.

She didn't apologize. She never did, except when apologies were totally unnecessary, so that people would deny them profusely.

by God he has the right sow by the ear.

I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

Do not compare" is the mantra of moral blackmailers.

States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement.

Tarih bir tahriften ibarettir. Tarih, geçmi?ten gelece?e uzanan ve bugün gördü?ümüz bir rüyad?r. Bütün rüyalar gibi tarih de yorumlanabilir; ama görülürken de?il.

They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.

I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.

he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?

To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.

You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction—controlling it absolutely.

The ease. Us, the children … I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery.

She seemed to be able to turn the accent on and off. She tended to turn it on for comforting people, and for threatening to kill them.

Even my mother said that things were improving. Yet Andrew Steele Jarret was able to scare, divide, and bully people, first into electing him President, then into letting him fix the country for them. He didn't get to do everything he wanted to do. He was capable of much greater fascism. So were his most avid followers.

Politicians and big corporations get the bread, and we get the circuses.

He's had to distance himself from the worst of his followers. But he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?

They forced you to have kids?" the man asked. "One of them surprised me," she said. "It made me pregnant, then told me about it. Said it was giving me what I wanted but would never come out and ask for." "Was it?" "Yes." She shook her head from side to side. "Oh, yes. But if I had the strength not to ask, it should have had the strength to let me alone.

I constructed you to look very male—so male that the females would be attracted to you and help convince you that you were male.

Jarret condemns the burnings, but does so in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear. As for the beatings, the tarring and feathering, and the destruction of "heathen houses of devil-worship," he has a simple answer: "Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.