Quotes About Manipulation

Media rule the incompetent minds and pointless believers.

Play as the game with the emotions of others shows one's mental and moral terrorism.

Responsibility neither plays and manipulates as politically, nor it turns postponed for another time; as a fact, action on time displays the excellence of responsibility; otherwise, it fails and loses credibility accordingly, as its context.

The print and electronic media hold Interests, and interests never afford transparent Neutrality.

The sick and hungry and thirsty, try every possible way everywhere, such ones stay the victim of deceivers easily.

The tricky ones cannot survive without doing tricks.

To mislead any subject if it deliberately, spreads through suspicious teachers, is not only the poison for the people but also the entire system of society that may cause the outcome of severe consequences.

You cannot enter someone's life with your lies and tricks and stay trying through the wrong ways. As a result, your success is also the defeat.

killing a buffalo, then cutting open its belly and crawling inside until the storm had passed. And that's what she'd done with Max, wasn't it? She'd used him to stay warm.

In short, somewhere inside you there is a Machiavelli. Yes, he is a ruthless manipulator; but no prince, especially a kind one, would stay in power long without at least one advisor with as remorseless a point of view as that of the enemies a prince will surely have. The trick is to listen well but keep Machiavelli in his place.

What you do, what you own, what you plan, what you believe, what you think you are, what you want, and so much more are all the result of beliefs and values you've been trained to have, to be, and to want. Some of this is simply enculturation, but when it takes on the intent of deliberate manipulation, then enculturation per se is an inadequate term.

Most people will be surprised (and horrified) to know that the epigraph for this chapter was taken from a quote found in a 1960 CIA study on brainwashing. The full quote is: "We know now that men can be made to do exactly anything.…It's all a question of finding the right means. If only we take enough trouble and go sufficiently slowly, we can make him kill his aged parents and eat them in a stew."1

Your confusion and self-doubt are important warning signals that you may be encountering someone who has a narcissistic personality disorder.

the general rules of reciprocity are not working with the NPD person. The relationship begins to operate more and more on his terms as if these are the only terms.

Whether we do this explicitly or implicitly, we must learn to extricate ourselves from the narcissist's constant distortion of reality.

The exploitation of man by man and the logic of maximum profit, which before had been considered an abomination, had returned to become the linchpins of freedom and democracy everywhere.

I had taken away my own time and added it to his to make him more powerful.

Parole: con quelle si fa e si disfa come si vuole.

I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn't supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.

Cada cual se organiza el recuerdo como le conviene.

When I gave signs of protest she nearly reminded me of the money she was giving me. She stopped in time, but not so that I didn't understand: it was like when someone is about to hit you and then doesn't.

No, words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it's only for a very brief time. Otherwise they're useful for speaking nonsense, as now. Or for pretending that everything is under control." "Pretending? You who have always kept everything under control, you were pretending?" "Why not? It's unavoidable to pretend a little.

If people had been horrified at those who wanted to overthrow the state, now they were disgusted by those who, pretending to serve it, had consumed it, like a fat worm in the apple.

She knew how to go beyond the limit without ever truly suffering the consequences. In the end people gave in, and were even, however unwillingly, compelled to praise her.