Quotes About Manipulation

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.

Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear

Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

You can't keep changing the rules based upon who holds political power.

If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

Never mistake the power of influence

Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.

The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base.

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just grotesque if you seriously think about it.

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

Content is an obstacle to the exercise of power.

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

Power factions fight back with lies.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.