Quotes About Manipulation

They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.

Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care—only when it suits him.

You have been deceived. Spiritualism is no more a science than thievery. For that's all this is--very skilled dodgers stealing money from the bereaved for a little glint of hope. People see what they want to see when they need to.

The King of Crows raked his fingers across the dark until it bled. He licked the blood from his fingers with a forked tongue. "People will believe anything, you know. You only need them to be frightened enough.

Soon I will take all you love and watch you burn. Sweet dreams, Object Reader.

The cranks are always with us," Qwilleran said, "hiding behind trees, peeking around corners, going about in disguise, and plotting their selfish little schemes.

the psychopath will speak of himself in grandiose terms while blaming others and taking absolutely no responsibility for his actions.

You delight in making a fool of me," she accused in a furious whisper. "Not true," Caleb replied smoothly. "But I do like watching the sparks catch in your eyes when you realize you've just been had. May I walk you home, Miss Chalmers?" "Certainly not. In fact, I would deem it a great favor if you would simply stop bothering me, Major.

It was all about words. If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.

Olympus, of course not! If you are to be a politician, your natural medium is lying. Surely your agent has explained that?

Latin, the language of politicians, provides a fine medium for lies, malpractice, obfuscation and straight bamboozling. It's perfect for buffoons, inadequates and crooks.

Rumours would do. When you blacken someone's name in politics, hearsay can be freely deployed. Scandal needs to be colourful, not true.

But, remember, a tyrant hates to admit he is one," Faustus said quietly. "The worse he is, the more he claims—and even believes—that

After all, they said, the French Fascists now in power had identical interests with the Germans. Les loups ne se mangent pas entre eux—wolf does not eat wolf. Hitler's government and Laval's government were playing into each other's hands.

What many bakers don't realise is that good wheat can make bad bread. The magic of bread baking is in the manipulation and the fermentation. What has been lost....is this method.

His job already had him lying and manipulating me. My past had me lying and manipulating him. Both of us thought we were right.

Devouring lives by the dozen, from the innocent to the not-so-innocent. It hardly mattered to him. He took, because destroying others was the only time he wasn't afraid.

Kind of guy who'd sell out his own mother to get ahead, that's for sure. Maybe he did.

Shit, I'm being played like a fucking violin! Rainie blinked. Since when did you take up swearing? Yesterday. I'm finding it highly addictive. Like nicotine. You're smoking , too? No, but I haven't lost my deep and abiding love for metaphors.

How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.

The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.