Quotes About Manipulation

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.

Jarret condemns the burnings, but does so in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear.

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.

They took us all to Arcata to the church there. Then they made us all separate. They said we were going to have new Christian American families. They said…they said you were all dead. I believed them at first, and I didn't know what to do. But then I saw how they would lie whenever they felt like it. They would say things about us and about Acorn that were nothing but lies. Then I didn't know what to believe.

It was ... more poison packed tight together in one place than I've ever known. Did Humans make it that way on purpose?

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Political motivations, though rare, occasionally did raise their heads, more so since 2016, and it brought out the worst in people. Black was white, and patriotism was treachery. Some had the gift of coloring the truth just enough to make it look like a lie, and to carefully prune a lie until it passed the smell test and became accepted truth, not just to the intended audience, but also eventually to the liar himself.

Sally is a bully of the worst sort, for she never lays a hand on Bill, never gives her bullying a properly physical manifestation. She beats him with words and body language and selectively brutal silences.

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Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero! ¡Qué poco conocían del significado de "circo y pan para la gente"!ç

Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero! ¡Qué poco conocían del significado de "circo y pan para la gente"!

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think?

One has to tell people what to think. There is no alternative. Otherwise, someone else will do it.

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us.

Ibland sätter man grimma på skönheten i det ondas intresse, då reduceras den till fägring för ögat, till båtnad för folket.

One has to tell people what to think. There's no alternative. Otherwise someone else will do it.

Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think? I trot around the little house, treading

Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)

Il conformismo, infine, che in nome della Civiltà (sic) consente agli ignoranti in malafede di alterare, falsare, sfruttare a proprio uso e consumo il significato del vocabolo «razzismo». Non ne conoscono neanche l'etimologia, i cialtroni. Non capiscono neanche che la parola «razzismo» deriva dalla parola «razza». Non sanno neanche che questa si riferisce a caratteristiche somatiche, affinità etniche, non a credi religiosi.

Once a rumour, however false, became the subject of common belief, it assumed the status of a political fact

New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.