Randal Marlin Quotes

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

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

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself.

The administration shaded the truth … I was part of the propaganda campaign.

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

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

As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.

A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

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

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?