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3. “The main thing with people of that sort is never to let them think that their information can be of the slightest importance to you. If you do, they will instantly shut up like an oyster. If you listen to them under protest, as it were, you are very likely to get what you want.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Psychology, Manipulation, Information Gathering, Human Behavior, Interpersonal Skills
4. “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
9. “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
10. “The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.” Aldous Huxley Propaganda, Truth, Silence, Manipulation, Information Control, Strategic Omission
11. “The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.” Hermann Hesse War, Peace, Manipulation, Responsibility, Societal Dynamics, Human Conflict
13. “Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.” Orson Scott Card Resentment, Identity, Manipulation, Self-hatred, Purpose, Existential Crisis
17. “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
20. “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
22. “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
25. “Peter, why do I get the idea that you are thinking of this as a golden opportunity for Peter Wiggin?" "For both of us, Val." "Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice." "But we don't think like other children, do we, Val? We don't talk like other children. And above all, we don't write like other children." "For a discussion that began with death threats, Peter, we've strayed from the topic, I think.” Orson Scott Card Ambition, Youth, Intelligence, Manipulation, Sibling Dynamics, Precocious Children
27. “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
Manipulation Quotes by Famous Authors
3. “The main thing with people of that sort is never to let them think that their information can be of the slightest importance to you. If you do, they will instantly shut up like an oyster. If you listen to them under protest, as it were, you are very likely to get what you want.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Psychology, Manipulation, Information Gathering, Human Behavior, Interpersonal Skills
4. “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
9. “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
10. “The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
Aldous Huxley Propaganda, Truth, Silence, Manipulation, Information Control, Strategic Omission
11. “The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.”
Hermann Hesse War, Peace, Manipulation, Responsibility, Societal Dynamics, Human Conflict
13. “Well, I'm your man. I'm the bloody bastard you wanted when you had me spawned. I'm your tool, and what difference does it make if I hate the part of me that you most need? What difference does it make that when the little serpents killed me in the game, I agreed with them, and was glad.”
Orson Scott Card Resentment, Identity, Manipulation, Self-hatred, Purpose, Existential Crisis
17. “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
20. “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
22. “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
25. “Peter, why do I get the idea that you are thinking of this as a golden opportunity for Peter Wiggin?" "For both of us, Val." "Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice." "But we don't think like other children, do we, Val? We don't talk like other children. And above all, we don't write like other children." "For a discussion that began with death threats, Peter, we've strayed from the topic, I think.”
Orson Scott Card Ambition, Youth, Intelligence, Manipulation, Sibling Dynamics, Precocious Children
27. “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
