Quotes About Manipulation

Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Tout flatteur vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute.

Germania hitlerist? dresa ?i domina instinctele s?lbatice ale omului ?i punea în slujba ei toat? magia pe care o pot genera noaptea, t?cerea ?i fr??ia de sânge.

Fascism is theater.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

On se moque des diseurs de bonne aventure. Il faut sinon se moquer, en tout cas se méfier des bâtisseurs d'avenir. Surtout quand pour bâtir l'avenir des hommes à naître, ils ont besoin de faire mourir les hommes vivants. L'homme n'est la matière première que de sa propre vie. Je refuse d'obéir.

Où il me dégoûtait surtout c'était avec les femmes. La première fois qu'on est venu ici, ça a commencé avec l'Anaïs. Il l'a pas laissée servir un verre sans y faire du boniment.

These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Being guided is not being manipulated. Being exploited is.

Every edit is a lie.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

exacerbated eagerness to exploit the ignorance and prejudice of voters.

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

But what's the use of arguing with a man? You belong, Mr. Smith, to a sex devoid of a sense of logic. To bring a man into line, there are just two methods: one must either coax or be disagreeable. I scorn to coax men for what I wish. Therefore, I must be disagreeable.

How in the world," Georgie demanded, "do you ever make them let you do all these things? I stuck in three innocent little thumb-tacks to-day, and Peters descended upon me bristling with wrath, and said he'd report me if I didn't pull them out." "We never ask," explained Patty. "It's the only way.

Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information?" Bones asked, getting back to the subject. You to take me," she replied at once. Not gonna happen!" I spat, squeezing him possessively. Three sets of widened eyes fixed on me. That's when I realized that what I had a firm grip on was no longer his hand.

There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.

trop fameux Gott mit uns, aujourd'hui repris par George Bush dans le cadre de sa lutte contre l'« axe du Mal », l'homme justifie ses intentions belliqueuses en utilisant la religion à ses propres fins, et n'hésite pas à déclarer la guerre en son nom. Une pratique mal décelée dans le bouddhisme, encore que ce soit en terre bouddhique que se sera perpétrée, on l'a dit, la folle aventure génocidaire de Pol Pot. Une