Social Manipulation Quotes

Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not Communists.

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies.

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it.

The ignorant classes had been taught to believe that certain words such as "sovereignty," "protection," and so forth had peculiar meanings disastrous to their welfare and significant of future political domination, like that from which they had been recently freed.

All flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

It's hard to escape bullies that come in many shapes and forms. The processed food industry, corrupt religious organizations, and celebrity worship culture are just a few that we deal with in modern times.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. "We have a single system," he wrote, and "in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses."

I'm smarter than the average; I just act dumb. That's what gets people's attention; you act dumb, you get people's attention.

The rogue has everywhere the advantage.

The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?

A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.

The colored man looms large in the Communist plan to take over America, and he will say that government welfare programs were designed to attract large numbers of blacks to the cities, where they would foment a vicious race war... .

People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go up; you go, Look, I wonder what he wants from me, because no one ever speaks except to obtain an objective. That's the only reason anyone ever opens their mouth, onstage or offstage. They may use a language that seems revealing, but if so, it's just coincidence, because what they're trying to do is accomplish an objective.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes.

A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.