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Manipulation |
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Quotations
 | Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 51 likes |
 | Religion is just mind control. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 21 likes |
 | The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 19 likes |
 | The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 10 likes |
 | Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 8 likes |
 | The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. — Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist 7 likes |
 | Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 7 likes |
 | Thus the expert commander in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 5 likes |
 | The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 5 likes |
 | The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 5 likes |
 | Man has his will, but woman has her way! — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 4 likes |
 | He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 4 likes |
 | Action men are the involuntary slaves of wise men. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 4 likes |
 | The more free a man believes he is, the easier it is to indoctrinate him. |
 | The one rule for pleasing: whet the appetite, keep people hungry. |
 | Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, and scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is favored in heaven and advantageous on earth. |
 | Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with an iron will. |
 | The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude. |
 | The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. |
 | People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. |
 | If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it. |
 | The best defense against democracy is to distract people. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Politics is the art of harnessing the passions of others for your own benefit. |
 | Do you know what duty is? What one demands from others. |
| Men, my dear, are like kites, the more rope you give them, the more you hold them. |
 | The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them. |
 | The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives, but have only one course of action in mind. |
| Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves. |
| Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. |
 | A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. |
 | Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. |
Latin Quotes
 | Bread and circuses. Panem et circenses. — Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet 42 likes |
 | Divide and conquer. Divide ut regnes. 25 likes |
Proverbs
 | They call you “generous” to get your money, they call you “brave” to get you killed. 9 likes |
