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Manipulation Quotes

"Craft is common both to skill and deceit.”"

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant"

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question"

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind"

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

"Once again, we hear that familiar call for bipartisanship—when it’s really just a means of diverting attention from the fact that they’re demanding we bow to their values and give them power."

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live"

"Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. "

"Intellectuals may like to imagine themselves as people who speak truth to power, but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power"

"Leaders who do not act dialogically but insist on imposing their decisions do not organize the people they manipulate them"

"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."

"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth"

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver"

"I went through this realization that acting, at its heart, is the ability to manipulate yourself and have others believe it."

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