Annie Parisse Quotes

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

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

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

As humans, we're so easily persuaded. We join this cause or that cause, and suddenly the other thing is wrong.

You can only coax someone into the vortex from in the vortex.

People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

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.

The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

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

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

My favorite hobby is matchmaking. It's a lot easier to do it in movies then in real life because in real life, people don't do what I tell them to do.

Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy.

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

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command …