Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It’s not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it’s the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone’s talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false ‚intelligence‘ and selected ‚leaks.‘

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

The Nihilistic Troll might pretend to be acting in the service of some cause or leader, but don’t be fooled. The cause and their supposedly strong convictions are simply a way to justify and provide cover for their abusive behavior.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

Most home teams have chapels, so when I’m on the road I’ll probably go to their services.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you’re trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you’re giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you’re trying to do?

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.