Manipulation Quotes

"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth" "Blockchain solves the problem of manipulation" "The cruelest lies are often told in silence" "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." "You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption." "Propaganda is lousy to live with and difficult to overcome" "One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived" "Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. " "There is no language without deceit" "When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear" "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant" "The best way to get information from people is to make them think you already know it" "He who wishes to deceive will never fail to find willing dupes." "See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence." "The devil can cite scripture for his purpose." "Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver" "Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. " "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."