Quotes About Manipulation

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.

Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

Power has been called many things. The ultimate aphrodisiac. An absolute corrupter. A mistress. A violin. But its true nature remains elusive. After all, a head of state wields a very different sort of power than

Heed not the flatterer?s fulsome talk, He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain; Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk, Ten hundred times as much of censure gain.

?nsanlar?, kendi cinslerinden biri üzerinde kudret ve salahiyetlerini denemek kadar tatl? sarho? eden ne vard?r? Hele bunu yapmak f?rsat?, birtak?m ince hesaplar dolay?s?yla, ancak muayyen baz? kimselere kar?? kendini gösterirse

To be human means you can mold situations you are living in the way you want them.

A man who tosses worms in the river isn't 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm's got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan.

It seems that some women love to be exploited. when they are not exploited, they exploit the man.

And this is true; this is how they do it. They take one little word out of what you say, ignore all the rest, and then begin to magnify it all over the world to make you look like what you actually aren't. And I'm very used to that

She threatened a Negro man who worked for her father that if he didn't take (have sex with) her she would swear he tried rape. He had no choice, except that he quit working for them. And from then until she finished high school, she managed it several times with other Negroes

For those she liked she did things; to those she didn't like she did other things.

A lot of people don't have opinions...they have weaponized ideals.

obsequious courting of the mob

Si disprezzano e tuttavia fanno a gara nell'adularsi a vicenda, e così vanno avanti a forza di inchini.

the spirit of industrial society"—a way of living organized around production and consumption.7 Our modern preoccupation with producing and consuming leads us to live on the surface level of reality and to seek our satisfaction in the finite. But the sacred is known in the depths of reality, not in the manipulation and consumption of the surface.

the man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself.

Si la clase media sirve para algo es para trabajar y pagar impuestos, con los que podamos sobornar a la plebe de Roma y tenerla contenta y mantenerla dócil. Es cierto que los plebeyos de Roma son como animales, pero son muchos y necesitamos sus votos para alcanzar el poder. Que la clase media nos sirva hasta el final, porque los nuevos ciudadanos no piensan mas que en trabajo.

A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

I´ll take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew it meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So that´s how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.

You know I love you. You're the only one. She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.

Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.