Quotes About Manipulation

When Stalin approved of issuing fake invasion plans for Overlord, Churchill said, to Stalin's vast amusement, 'In wartime, Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

The masses … should be directed without their being aware of it.' Napoleon to Fouché, September 1804

Placing oneself in the limelight while seeming modestly to edge away from it is one of the most skilful of all political moves, and Napoleon had mastered it perfectly.

This was both unsettling, since I'd been duped, and a little comforting in that it took away some of my feeling of guilt for my actions. Ah, the sweet power of deflecting responsibility.

He could have killed us both if he had wanted to.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

Since the dawn of time woman has been the root of all evil! The tool of Chaos, the accomplice in a conspiracy against the world and the human race! Woman is governed

Because the people are ignorant, stupid, and easy to manipulate," Skellen finished the sentence, after he had himself a sneeze. "You need only 'Hurrah!' and make a speech from the senate steps promising to open the prisons and cut the taxes." "You are absolutely right, Owl," said the syllable stretcher. "Now I know why you shout so loudly for democracy.

Kings," continued Calanthe, "divide people into two categories—those they order around, and those they buy—because they adhere to the old and banal truth that everyone can be bought. Everyone. It's only a question of price.

You took advantage of a madman's ravings to strengthen your own authority.

You took advantage of a madman's ravings to strengthen your own authority. To break up alliances, ruin marriage allegiances, stir up dynasties. In a word: to tangle the strings of crowned puppets even more. And here you are lecturing me about predictions, which any old storyteller at the marketplace would be ashamed of.

he who pays the piper calls the tune!

Non mi hanno insegnato a curare. Mi hanno insegnato a uccidere, spiegandomi che in questo modo avrei potuto salvare delle vite. Era una grossa menzogna, Cavallino. Mi hanno ingannato.

WyciÄ…ga po ciebie swe szpony Chaos, który wci?? nie jest pewien, czy staniesz siÄ™ jego narzÄ™dziem, czy te? przeszkodÄ… w jego planach. To, co Chaos pokazuje ci w snach, to jest wÅ'aÅ›nie ta niepewno??. Chaos boi siÄ™ ciebie. Dziecko Przeznaczenia. A chce sprawi?, byÅ› to ty czuÅ'a lÄ™k.

He turned his head and caught the queen's venomously green glance.

Though man can bend rods of steel, women will always bring him to heel.

Freedom and contempt have their limits. Anyway, it's always like that. You're always somebody's tool.

Conozco algo la política, sé que tiene dos fines alternativos: uno es el entendimiento, el otro el conflicto. El entendimiento se alcanza cuando uno de los bandos finge que se traga las trolas que le cuenta el otro bando.

It's spiritually deforming because fear entices us to place our faith in the person, party, or platform that promises to protect us from whatever they've convinced us we should fear.

You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp.

Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.

Excretion is his first concrete production and, through it, the child gains his first experience of labour relations. He may reserve the right to go on excremental strike or to engage in a form of faecal offensive. The excremental faculty is a manipulative device and to be baulked of the free control of it is to be deprived of the first, most elementary, expression of autonomy.

he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption.

Blaming yourself gives you the comfortable illusion of being in control.