Quotes About Manipulation

The mother tongue of politicians is that of ancient Babylon: a language designed to severely limit discourse within a tower of praise to elitism, a language carried on breath's reeking of the fecal matter from their paymasters

Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing

The rise of Donald Trump is what happens when you build Potemkin villages in Weimar republics.

power happily walks hand in hand with abuse

The endgame of these sociopathic social engineers isn't non-binary sexuality. It is non-binary reality with them defining and profiting from it

With Great Power Comes Great Psychopathy

Leo Koretz, the Bernie Madoff of the Roaring Twenties, operated his swindle for far longer and with more panache than his contemporary, Charles Ponzi. He was a better actor, a more adept liar, a shrewder salesman. He kept his scam alive – and his investors none the wiser – for almost two decades …. In terms of the scale of their frauds, staying power and sheer audacity, Leo Koretz and Bernie Madoff stand apart in the pantheon of pyramid-building swindlers.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

In my experience it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear then do as you please, than attempt to reason with him.

I was merely thinking that it may have been a very grave mistake to introduce you to Lady C. If the pair of you ever put your minds to it, you could probably topple governments together." I smiled as I pocketed the weapon. "One thing at a time, dear Stoker. One thing at a time.

I am angry at being used as a pawn," I retorted. "I am not your chess piece to move as you see fit, my lady. I was not engaged upon this investigation simply because you wished to amuse Her Royal Highness or make certain Miles Ramsforth didn't hang. You were testing me.

I would not like him to be a pawn in someone else's political gamesmanship.

because, in my experience, it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

I gave it to him because, in my experience, it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.

Ass-kissing is the last resort of any anxious person who's in over their head.

The more you try to please people, the more they get control of you and you'll end up hurting yourself.

Influence can be the worst gun nowadays.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

I admit I distorted intelligence to please Stalin because I feared him.