Quotes about Manipulation
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TVAnd you think you're so clever and classless and freeBut you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see.
— John Lennon
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
— Oscar Wilde
Foreign governments want to lie to the American people.
— Conor Lamb
Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.
— Joseph Wirthlin
But the changes from the crab apple to the pippin, from the wolf and fox to the house dog, from the charger of Henry V to the brewer's draught horse and the racehorse, are real; for here Man has played the god, subduing Nature to his intention, and ennobling or debasing life for a set purpose. And what can be done with a wolf can be done with a man.
— George Bernard Shaw
Gwendolen would not have liked to be an object of disgust to this husband whom she hated: she liked all disgust to be on her side.
— George Eliot
You go against rottenness, and there is nothing more thoroughly rotten than making people believe that society can be cured by a political hocus-pocus.
— George Eliot
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.
— Charles Spurgeon
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.
— Mark Twain
All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power.
— Arthur C. Clarke
But all was false and hollow; through his tongue dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason.
— John Milton