Quotes About Manipulation

It was stupid, but people needed someone to hate, and the newspapers were always ready to supply that need.

Maud knew the proprietor of the Mail, Lord Northcliffe. Like all great press men, he really believed the drivel he published. His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.

Americans talked about voters the way Russians talked about Stalin: they had to be obeyed, right or wrong.

Intéressant, laissa tomber la mère. J'ai la forte impression que Philémon te sera utile dans l'avenir. Il est capable de tout, vois-tu. Il n'a pas de scrupules, aucune morale. Mon père avait un associé qui était toujours prêt à faire le sale travail : inventer des rumeurs, répandre des commérages venimeux, fomenter des différends. De tels hommes peuvent se révéler inestimables.

Children who had inherited money, or a warehouse full of cloth or corn, were sometimes adopted by unscrupulous neighbors greedy to get their hands on the legacy. The prospect of something for nothing brought out the worst in people..

You know politicians', Rosa said. 'They're sensitive as schoolgirls, and more vengeful.

Bogge made bad decisions because he was playing some other game, making himself look good or trying to be superior or something

When he thought about how he had been slighted, condescended to, manipulated and deceived, he became angry. Obedience was a monastic virtue, but outside the cloisters it had its drawbacks, he thought bitterly. The world of power and property demanded that a man be suspicious, demanding, and insistent.

Ya no había representantes elegidos democráticamente, todos los diputados del Reichstag eran nazis. Tampoco había auténticos periodistas, solo aduladores serviles.

Carla had never before realized how much she had been protected by politicians, newspapermen, and lawyers. Without them, she saw now, the government could do anything it liked, even kill people. Who

Stalin había permitido que se le denominase oficialmente Padre, Maestro, Gran Líder, Transformador de la Naturaleza, Gran Timonel, Genio de la Humanidad y el Mayor Genio de Todos los Tiempos y los Pueblos.

Los que hemos nacido pobres tenemos que valernos de artimañas para conseguir lo que queremos. Los escrúpulos son cosa de los privilegiados.

They want you to scare those middling people by violence and rioting. That will get people worrying about the need to maintain order, and stop them thinking about freedom of speech.

În lumea regilor È™i a curtenilor, nimeni nu spunea tot adev?rul, întotdeauna.

Hitler doesn't stir up hatred without a purpose.

They claimed popular support, but banned all opposition. Lloyd

to stay, and lull them into a false sense of security. He

The first thing Hitler did was take over the press and make it subservient to the government. Lenin did the same.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

Papa says if you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

she likes a rigged game.

Papa says if you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it. I