Keith Barry Quotes

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.

Men. They were all so incredibly easy to sway. Pat them on their heads, give them something to eat, and they'll follow you anywhere. Add a smile and a few stupid compliments, and they'll immediately forget all about their other responsibilities.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

...in seduction, as in all forms of marketing, form superseds content.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.

Propaganda tries first of all to create conditioned reflexes in the individual so that certain words, signs, or symbols, even certain persons or facts, provoke unfailing reactions...The important thing is that when the time is ripe, the individual can be thrown into action by the utilization of the psychological levers that have been set up.

A lot of the demonstrations that I do, when I get inside people's minds, is understanding human behavior and understanding how people think and getting their patterns down so I know how to create the illusion that I get inside their brain.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

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

One must do things in such a way that people believe that they want it to be done this way.

If I get ‘em by the short and curlies, the hearts and minds will follow.

Manipulation is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

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.