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Manipulation |
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 | Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 52 likes |
 | Religion is just mind control. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 24 likes |
 | The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 20 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 12 likes |
 | Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 9 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 8 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 8 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 6 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 6 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 6 likes |
 | Man has his will, but woman has her way! — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 5 likes |
 | He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 5 likes |
 | Action men are the involuntary slaves of wise men. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 5 likes |
 | The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. — Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, French polymath & writer 3 likes |
 | Before anything else, Numa decided that he must instill in his subjects the fear of the gods, this being the most effective measure with an ignorant, and at that time uncultured, people. — Titus Livius, 59 BC-17 AD, Roman historian 2 likes |
 | One of the greatest deceptions of our time is that they have made the average person believe that they have something to say. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 2 likes |
 | The more free a man believes he is, the easier it is to indoctrinate him. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
 | The one rule for pleasing: whet the appetite, keep people hungry. — Baltasar Gracian, 1601-1658, Spanish writer 1 likes |
 | Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, and scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is favored in heaven and advantageous on earth. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 1 likes |
 | Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with an iron will. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 1 likes |
 | 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. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 1 likes |
 | The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. — Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907 1 likes |
 | People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. — Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921 1 likes |
 | If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it. — Donald Rumsfeld, 1932-2021, American politician 1 likes |
 | The best defense against democracy is to distract people. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist 1 likes |
 | 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 1 likes |
 | Politics is the art of harnessing the passions of others for your own benefit. — Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer 1 likes |
 | Do you know what duty is? What one demands from others. — Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895, French writer 1 likes |
| Men, my dear, are like kites, the more rope you give them, the more you hold them. — Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895, French writer 1 likes |
 | 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. — Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives, but have only one course of action in mind. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
| Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
| Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. — George Herbert, 1593-1633, Welsh poet 1 likes |
 | 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 1 likes |
 | The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 1 likes |
| The mob can only think in images and therefore can only be influenced by images. Only images can terrify or excite them and thus become motivations for action. — Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, French polymath & writer 1 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Bread and circuses. Panem et circenses. — Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet 43 likes |
 | Divide and conquer. Divide ut regnes. 27 likes |
Proverbs
 | They call you “generous” to get your money, they call you “brave” to get you killed. 10 likes |
