Quotes About Manipulation

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.

A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people.

of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.

Divide et impera(1) must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.(2)

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

Bloody bullocks, beggin' your pardon, gentlemen, but they'd take the wooden leg off a cripple to kindle a fire!

Narcissists are neither carefree nor innocent. They have learned to play the power game, to seduce and to manipulate. They are always thinking about how people see and respond to them. And they must stay in control because loss of control evokes their fear of insanity.

But when to mischief mortals bend their will,How soon they find fit instruments of ill!

Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

All seems infected that th' infected spy,As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Why did you deceive me?" "Would you have listened to me if I had told you the truth straightaway? I did not have time to convince you. It was necessary to distort the truth for the sake of plausibility. Without this transitional stage you would

You only break out the good stuff when you want something. Usually something that includes blood, death, and/or mayhem.

Schoolchildren were asked to collect propaganda posters and caricatures 'for your race book and arrange them according to racial schemes'.

The Frankfurt School masterminds for indoctrination into collectivist mindsets. Those men's understanding of human psychology was infallible: Ideas that the general public sees and hears on a repetitive basis will eventually achieve agreement with the ideas put forth or impair the individual judgment necessary to refute them.

I think he wants to use you to get to me, because I'm hard to corner." Devlin picked up her suitcase. "Maybe if he figures if he threatens you, I'd walk into a trap bare-ass naked with my hands up." "And would you do that?" she asked, already knowing the answer. "In a minute and with a smile on my face.

Are we encouraging him to make his own judgments about what constitutes a good performance (or a desirable action) ? Are we contributing to, or at least preserving, his ability to choose what kind of person to be? Or are we attempting to manipulate his behavior by getting him to think about whether he has met our criteria? The

We may not be able to say, "Don't watch," but we can watch with them and show them how to view critically, how to recognize propaganda tricks used to sell them stuff they don't need, how to identify hidden values and defuse attempts to manipulate them.

Control breeds the need for more control, which then is used to justify the use of control.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.