Quotes About Manipulation

Histrionic vampires think you're wonderful until they think you're terrible. Then the battle begins.

Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will really work with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

Un tirano es un lenguaje persistente. Los crímenes y las injusticias parecen razonables cuando se verbalizan

Y es que así es el tiempo cuando maneja los sentimientos: caprichoso, impredecible, a veces un buen compañero y otras, el peor enemigo.

La selva era el mundo de la mentira, de la trampa, y del falso semblante; allí todo era disfraz, estratagema, juego de apariencias, metamorfosis.

At worst, she kept him around so he could make her feel better when she needed it, a winning combination of a pet and a dildo.

It felt like lying, only better, because he couldn't be caught, and he couldn't be caught because there was nothing to verify it against. Immersed in the flow of bullshit, they had no reason, or time, not to believe him.

Tra tanti appassionati, c'eran pure alcuni più di sangue freddo, i quali stavano osservando con molto piacere, che l'acqua s'andava intorbidando; e s'ingegnavano d'intorbidirla di più, con que' ragionamenti, e con quelle storie che i furbi sanno comporre, e che gli animi alterati sanno credere; e si proponevano di non lasciarla posare quell'acqua, senza farci un po' di pesca.

Le parole dell'iniquo che è forte penetrano e sfuggono. Egli può adirarsi che tu mostri sospetto di lui, e nello stesso tempo farti sentire che quello di che tu sospetti è certo: può insultare e chiamarsi offeso, schernire e domandar ragione, atterrire e lagnarsi, essere sfacciato e irreprensibile.

they even put up bad reviews on TripAdvisor to scare away the tourists.

She's using me. And I like it.

Even in my time, we knew that men were not in charge. Oh, they might bluster as if they were. But when it came down to it, we women bore much of the influence. Often, my father would make some grand pronouncement in the evening. And the next morning, he had changed his mind. After a while, I realized that it was my mother who had changed it, quietly, in the night.

Control is part of faking it

Bullies use various power tactics, such as spreading malicious gossip, excessive criticism, withholding resources or information, excluding a targeted person from the group, and other devious behaviors intended to undermine the confidence and performance of others. Bullies often take aggressive action against individuals in an effort to control and have power over them.

The Newspeak word blackwhite] means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past […][5] (George Orwell, 1984)

will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.[130] (George Orwell, 1984)