Quotes About Manipulation

Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

Each side, hypocritical enough to pretend that it lives up to its own hype, is equally insistent that the other side's worst is truly all that it is. American political advertising is sinking slowly toward a level worthy of Soviet propaganda.

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER

Name-calling, insult, ridicule, guilt by association, caricature, innuendo, accusation, denunciation, negative ads, and deceptive and manipulative videos have replaced deliberation and debate. Neither side talks to the other side, only about them; and there is no pretence of democratic engagement, let alone a serious effort at persuasion.

There are no foolproof methods of persuasion, and those that come closest are coercive and dangerous because they override the will rather than convince the mind.

In his famous novel 1984, O'Brien states frankly, "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. . . . The object of power is power.

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.

My definition of a "respected" man was one who had succeeded almost completely in hoodwinking people

My definition of a "respected" man was one who had succeeded almost completely in hoodwinking people, but who was finally seen through by some omniscient, omnipotent person who ruined him and made him suffer a shame worse than death.

What the tanuki doesn't realize is that people who affect to believe all our nonsense often harbor evil and insidious plots in their hearts

Forced explanations often end in a distortion of lies.

A leader pompously voices his own views without the least hesitation. Do as I say, he proclaims. Then you, as well as your family and your village and your country and the whole world too will be secure. Gesturing grandly, he roars on about how disaster will come from ignoring him. But then, as has happened time after time, his favorite prostitute gives him the cold shoulder, and this makes him cry out desperately for the abolition of her kind.

Las personas se engañan unas a otras del modo más natural y, sorprendentemente, sin resultar lastimadas.

Conheçais vós, vossa própria pusilanimidade, vossos mistérios, vossa perversidade, vossa ardileza e vossa feitiçaria.

Lord Hamlet, maybe you alone are the evil one. You insert yourself where everyone is living peacefully and amicably, and you spout complex reasoning and attack everyone, making them suffer, saying that in this world only your love is pure and devoted.

A man is a puppet in the hands of time and change.

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.

Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Heute leben wir so widerstandslos unter der Wirkung dieser geistigen Artillerie, dass kaum jemand den inneren Abstand gewinnt, um sich das Ungeheuerliche dieses Schauspiels klarzumachen. Der Wille zur Macht in rein demokratischer Verkleidung hat sein Meisterstück damit vollendet, dass dem Freiheitsgefühl der Objekte mit der vollkommensten Knechtung, die es je gegeben hat, sogar noch geschmeichelt wird.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.