Manipulation Quotes

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Give up the tyranny of female charm.

The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

President George] Bush talked to us like we were a bunch of morons and we ate it up. Can you imagine, the Pledge of Allegiance, read my lips-can you imagine such crap in this day and age?

Take away a nation's heritage and they are more easily persuaded.

I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.

The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.

Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.

Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads.

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.