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3. “A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.”
Aldous Huxley
Society, Distraction, Manipulation, Control, Escapism, Social Vulnerability
5. “All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.” Orson Scott Card History, Manipulation, Power, Ordinary People, Ambition, Social Dynamics
7. “And when memory failed and written records were falsified – when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.” George Orwell Memory, History, Truth, Manipulation, Control
8. ““Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better!” It went on for five minutes without stopping. And by the time the sheep had quieted down, the chance to utter any protest had passed, for the pigs had marched back into the farmhouse.” George Orwell Manipulation, Control, Society, Propaganda, Revolt
10. “Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.” Orson Scott Card Fate, Destiny, Childhood, Manipulation, Life Journey, Mythological Allusion
14. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell History, Truth, Control, Manipulation, Totalitarianism
20. “I have been told you have extreme political views,” said Villefort, who had never been told anything of the kind but was not sorry to put forward the statement in the form of an accusation.” Alexandre Dumas Political Extremes, False Accusation, Villefort’s Tactics, Strategy, Manipulation, Conflict
21. “I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.” Orson Scott Card Manipulation, Free Will, Death, Freedom, Desire, Philosophical Observation
26. “If you are trying to mislead your enemies, it is often better to concoct something ambiguous and hard to read, as opposed to an outright deception – that deception can be uncovered and enemies can turn their discovery to their advantage, especially if you think they are still fooled and act under that belief.” Robert Greene Strategic Deception, Ambiguity Strategy, Misdirection, Power Tactics, Manipulation, Strategy
29. “In their propaganda today's dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization – the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in ther interests of the Party or the State.” Aldous Huxley Propaganda, Dictatorship, Manipulation, Information Control, Political Strategy, Mass Psychology
30. “It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.” George Orwell Propaganda, Rebellion, Fear, Slander, Manipulation
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3. “A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.”
Aldous Huxley Society, Distraction, Manipulation, Control, Escapism, Social Vulnerability
5. “All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.”
Orson Scott Card History, Manipulation, Power, Ordinary People, Ambition, Social Dynamics
7. “And when memory failed and written records were falsified – when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.”
George Orwell Memory, History, Truth, Manipulation, Control
8. ““Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better! Four legs good, two legs better!” It went on for five minutes without stopping. And by the time the sheep had quieted down, the chance to utter any protest had passed, for the pigs had marched back into the farmhouse.”
George Orwell Manipulation, Control, Society, Propaganda, Revolt
10. “Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.”
Orson Scott Card Fate, Destiny, Childhood, Manipulation, Life Journey, Mythological Allusion
14. “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell History, Truth, Control, Manipulation, Totalitarianism
20. “I have been told you have extreme political views,” said Villefort, who had never been told anything of the kind but was not sorry to put forward the statement in the form of an accusation.”
Alexandre Dumas Political Extremes, False Accusation, Villefort’s Tactics, Strategy, Manipulation, Conflict
21. “I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.”
Orson Scott Card Manipulation, Free Will, Death, Freedom, Desire, Philosophical Observation
26. “If you are trying to mislead your enemies, it is often better to concoct something ambiguous and hard to read, as opposed to an outright deception – that deception can be uncovered and enemies can turn their discovery to their advantage, especially if you think they are still fooled and act under that belief.”
Robert Greene Strategic Deception, Ambiguity Strategy, Misdirection, Power Tactics, Manipulation, Strategy
29. “In their propaganda today's dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization – the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in ther interests of the Party or the State.”
Aldous Huxley Propaganda, Dictatorship, Manipulation, Information Control, Political Strategy, Mass Psychology
30. “It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.”
George Orwell Propaganda, Rebellion, Fear, Slander, Manipulation
